vol. i, p. 236 et seq.

[76] See Table from "Gazette de France" and extracts from other
sources in Levasseur, vol. i, pp. 223-4.

[77] Among the many striking accounts of the debasing effects of
"inflation" upon France under the Directory perhaps the best is that
of Lacretelle, vol. xiii, pp. 32-36. For similar effect, produced by
the same cause in our own country in 1819, see statement from Niles'
"Register," in Sumner, p. 80. For the jumble of families reduced to
beggary with families lifted into sudden wealth and for the mass of
folly and misery thus mingled, see Levassour, vol. i, p. 237.

[78] For Madame Tallien and luxury of the stock-gambler classes, see
Challamel, "Les français sous la Révolution," pp. 30, 33; also De
Goncourt, "Les français sous le Directoire." Regarding the outburst
of vice in Paris and the demoralization of the police, see Levasseur,
as above.

[79] See Levasseur, Vol. i, p. 237, et seq.

[80] For specimens of counterfeit _assignats_, see the White
Collection in the Cornell University Library, but for the great series
of various issues of them in fac-simile, also for detective warnings
and attempted descriptions of many varieties of them, and for the
history of their Issue, see especially Dewarmin, vol. i, pp. 152-161.
For photographic copies of Royalist _assignats_, etc., see also
Dewarmin, ibid., pp. 192-197, etc. For a photograph of probably the
last of the Royalist notes ever issued, bearing the words "Pro Deo,
pro Rege, pro Patria" and "Armée Catholique et Royale" with the date