FRENCH NATIONAL FORTUNE.
M. 'Edmond Thery, a well-known statistician, tells us that at the end of the *tor»ny iperiod, 178D-ISIS, the national fortune of France was .ta.oIiO.OOO.OW. From TXiO-lOOS this fortune was more than quadrupled, 'for it is now stated to he nearly £11,500,000.000. Now, in 11)08 the .population of France was a little, oyer 301/, millions. If the, whole national fortune could then have been divided up among the nienvbers of great French families—economists admit tha-t the operation would mean the collapse of the whole edifice—each Fronehtniin might have soliloquised thus: "I possess pronertv to the anmint of £2!>2 lis 2'/>d. I„ U, e last 10 years business has not been bad, for I 'have realised £3O 4s Oy.d, or <]sy 2 per cent, of my capital. M I count up my property, I may say that 1 have nearly, omitting shillings and pence, £7O in undeveloped land, £K i H agricnlttmi.l Mock and material, :ZM in developed land: I am concerned in commerce and industry to the exjflfct of nearly £lO, I have in my pocflP-bonk French securities to the value of £OB, and foreign securities to the value of £39; in my purse I have nearly £7 in gold and over £2 in silver. Lastly, my personal effects are worth £2O 12s O'/.d, and my automobiles, horses, and carriages arc worth C2 «s oi/„d"
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 96, 13 October 1911, Page 6
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227FRENCH NATIONAL FORTUNE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 96, 13 October 1911, Page 6
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