Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Chronology
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The fiscal crisis
- 2 The French economy at the end of the ‘Ancien Régime’
- 3 1789
- 4 The ‘assignats’
- 5 The finances of the Constituent Assembly
- 6 The rising cost of living, anarchy and war
- 7 The seizure of power by the Mountain
- 8 Economic dictatorship
- 9 ‘Dirigisme’ in retreat
- 10 The French Revolution: economic considerations
- Appendices
- I The final budget of the Ancien Régime
- II The grain trade
- III The life of Dupont de Nemours
- IV The value of the bids made for biens nationaux
- V Econometric study of the depreciation of the assignats
- Notes
- Select guide to further reading
- Index
I - The final budget of the Ancien Régime
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Chronology
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The fiscal crisis
- 2 The French economy at the end of the ‘Ancien Régime’
- 3 1789
- 4 The ‘assignats’
- 5 The finances of the Constituent Assembly
- 6 The rising cost of living, anarchy and war
- 7 The seizure of power by the Mountain
- 8 Economic dictatorship
- 9 ‘Dirigisme’ in retreat
- 10 The French Revolution: economic considerations
- Appendices
- I The final budget of the Ancien Régime
- II The grain trade
- III The life of Dupont de Nemours
- IV The value of the bids made for biens nationaux
- V Econometric study of the depreciation of the assignats
- Notes
- Select guide to further reading
- Index
Summary
The final budget of the Ancien Régime, that for 1788, was partially reconstructed in 1936 by F. Braesch, on the basis of the Compte rendu au roi and other documents left by Necker. I have presented the main results of his investigation below. They make it only too easy to understand ‘the profound causes of the ill the Estates-General was called upon to remedy’.
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- The French RevolutionAn Economic Interpretation, pp. 196 - 197Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990