Its price is today in 1998 1933 .-- francs.

Taine's figures have to be multiplied by app.

ten in order to compare with today's prices.

No real comparison can, however, be made since production per capita has multiplied by a large factor and so have taxes.] [Footnote 4244: "Situation financiere des department et des communes," published in 1889 by the Minister of the Interior.

Loans and indebtedness of the departments at the end of the fiscal year in 1886, 630,066,102 francs.