THE VALUE OF PARIS.
An English paper estimates the value of the property which the defenders of Paris expose to danger by awaiting a Prussian attack, as follows • —" Value of buildings £154,350,000 ; value of furniture and other contents of dwellings, £77,175,000 ; value of stock-in-trade, £77,175,000. Total, £308,700,000, which we may take as the minimum value of private property in Paris destructible in a siege. When the danger to such property alone is considered it may well make the defender of a great city pause — apart altogether from the loss already sustained in the environs ; the probable destruction of roads, bridges, and other works not iusurable and not here reckoned; the danger of monuments, libraries, museums, and works of art whose worth cannot be reckoned in money; and the tremendous sacrifice of life which such a destruction of property would imply. In mere money, the loss of Paris would cost Prance quite as much as years of ordinary war."
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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 766, 21 January 1871, Page 3
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158THE VALUE OF PARIS. Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 766, 21 January 1871, Page 3
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