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Fiat Money Inflation in France by Andrew Dickson White
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1799, and for the sum of 100 _livres_, see Dewarmin, vol. i, p. 204.

[81] For similar expectation of a "shock," which did not occur, at the
resumption of specie payments in Massachusetts, see Sumner, "History
of American Currency," p. 34.

[82] See Thiers.

[83] See Levasseur, vol. i, p. 246.

[84] For examples of similar effects in Russia, Austria and Denmark,
see Storch, "Economie Politique," vol. iv; for similar effects in the
United States, see Gouge, "Paper Money and Banking in the United
States," also Summer, "History of American Currency." For working out
of the same principles in England, depicted in a masterly way, see
Macaulay, "History of England," chap. xxi; and for curious exhibition
of the same causes producing same results in ancient Greece, see a
curious quotation by Macaulay in same chapter.

[85] For parallel cases in the early history of our own country, see
Sumner, p. 21, and elsewhere.

[86] For a review of some of these attempts, with eloquent statement
of their evil results, see "Mémoires de Durand de Maillane," pp.
166-169.

[87] For similar effect of inflated currency in enervating and
undermining trade, husbandry, manufactures and morals in our own
country, see Daniel Webster, cited in Sumner, pp. 45-50. For similar
effects in other countries, see Senior, Storch, Macaulay and others
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