p. 16 | The Cost of French Administration

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 3, 1911

The Cost of French Administration

A statistician who has been examining the public records of France from 1800 to 1900 gives the following figures as the approximate cost of the French administration during the last century: "Under the consulate and the first empire the State coach was run at a cost of $23,000 an hour. Under the restoration the cost was $23,800. In the time of Louis Philippe it was $30,000. Under the republic of 1848 the cost had risen to $34,400. In the second empire the rate was $49,800. In the third republic — the last years of the nineteenth century — the hourly sum was $92,600."