Note 117 — Chapter XIV

M. Beslay, in his book Mes Souvenirs, Paris, 1873, says: "The cash in hand was forty and some odd millions." These "some odd" were no less than 203 millions. They presented the good man fictitious statements, with which they gulled him. In his evidence and the annexes (Enquête sur le 18 Mars, vol. iii. errata, p. 488), M. de Plœuc has given the true statements.