by
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton, Reginald Vere Laurence, John Neville Figgis
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
The revenue of France was near twenty millions when Lewis XVI., finding it inadequate, called upon the nation for supply. In a single lifetime it rose to far more than one hundred millions, while the national income grew still more rapidly; and this increase was wrought by a class to whom the ancient...