[The Origins of Contemporary France Volume 5 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link bookThe Origins of Contemporary France Volume 5 (of 6) CHAPTER II 42/45
30; 9652 pay from 0 fr.
31 to 0 fr.
50; 11,095 from 0 fr.
51 to 1 franc, and 4248 over 1 franc .-- Here this relates only to the common centimes; to have the sum total of the additional local centimes of each commune would require the addition of the department centimes, which the statistics do not furnish.] [Footnote 4241: Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, ibid., I., pp.690, 717.] [Footnote 4242: Ibid.: "If the personal tax were deducted from the amount of personal and house tax combined we would find that the assessment of the state in the product of the house tax, that is to say the product of the tax on rentals, amounts to 41 or 42 millions, and that the share of localities in the product of this tax surpasses that of the state by 8 or 9 millions (Year 1877.)"] [Footnote 4243: Between 1805 and 1900 the French franc was tied to the gold standard.
A 20 francs coin thus weighed 7,21 grams.
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