20 sous constituted a franc.

So the sums referred to by Taine under the Revolution must be multiplied with at least 300 in order to compare them with 1990 values.

To obtain dollars multiply with 50.

SR.)] [Footnote 1207: National archives, among the papers of the ecclesiastical committee, box (portfolios) 10, 11, 13, 25 .-- Beugnot's Memoirs, I.49, 79 .-- Delbos, "L'Eglise de France," I.399 .-- Duc de Levis, "Souvenirs et Portraits," p.156.] [Footnote 1208: Leonce de Lavergne, "Economie Rurale en France," p.24 .-- Perin, "La Jeunesse de Robespierre," (Statements of grievances in Artois), p.317.

( In French "cahiers des doleances"-- statements of local complaints and expectations--prepared all over France for use by their delegates for the Etats Generaux.