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| Name of Canals, Etc. |
Estimated Expense
|
Sums Spent 1804 - 1813
|
| Saint Quentin Canal |
11,000,000
|
10,000,000
|
| La Somme Canal |
5,000,000
|
1,200,000
|
| La Haine (Mons à Condé) Canal |
5,000,000
|
3,000,000
|
| Seine and Aube Canal |
15,000,000
|
6,000,000
|
| Napoleon Canal |
17,000,000
|
10,500,000
|
| Bourgogne Canal |
24,000,000
|
6,800,000
|
| Ille and Rance Canal |
8,000,000
|
5,000,000
|
| The Blavet Canal |
3,300,000
|
2,800,000
|
| Nantes to Brest Canal |
28,000,000
|
1,200,000
|
| Niort Canal |
9,000,000
|
1,500,000
|
| Arles and Porte de Bouc Canal |
8,500,000
|
3,800,000
|
| The Cher Canal |
6,000,000
|
1,100,000
|
| Dieuze Canal |
3,500,000
|
900,000
|
| The Colancelle |
2,000,000
|
900,000
|
| Draining and Works to Recover Bogs and Swamps Lands at |
|
|
| Rochefort |
7,000,000
|
3,000,000
|
| Carenton |
4,500,000
|
2,600,000
|
| The Scheldt |
3,200,000
|
2,800,000
|
| Blankemberg |
3,000,000
|
3,000,000
|
| Dikes of the River Po |
4,000,000
|
2,000,000
|
|
Works at Péraché, on the Saône, etc. |
4,000,000
|
2,000,000
|
| Total |
168,000,000
|
68,900,000
|
| Minor Works for Canals, Draining, etc. |
53,687,898
|
|
| Total |
122,587,898
|
Source:
Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de. Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
Vol. 4 New York : Charles Scribner's Sons; 1895. P. 442
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