Research: Abstract of the Napoleonic Era


Government Finances.
France:  Money Spent on Miscellaneous Public Works: 1804 - 1813

Note: All monies are in Francs.

Name of Project

Estimated Expenses

Sums Spent 1804 - 1813

Workhouses for the Poor
29,000,000
12,000,000
Repairs for Prisons
30,000,000
6,000,000
Napoleon-Ville, a New Town in the Vendée
12,500,000
7,500,000
Rebuilding Houses and Churches in the West
1,800,000
1,500,000
Bathing Establishments
3,600,000
1,500,000
Works at Rome
6,000,000
2,000,000
Works at Napoleon (Morbihan)
1,500,000
1,100,000
Orphanages
1,500,000
1,200,000
Theatre at Strasburg
1,200,000
500,000
Total For Projects
87,100,000
33,300,000
Various Public Works in the Departments
115,808,550
Total
149,108,550

 

Source:

Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de. Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. 4 New York : Charles Scribner's Sons; 1895. P. 444



 

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