Note 77 — Chapter II
Eleanor Marx Aveling translation
Some Bourse speculators, in the belief that a campaign of six weeks would give a fresh impulse to the speculations they were living upon, said, "It is a disagreeable moment to pass through, some 50,000 men to be sacrificed, after which the horizon will clear and commerce revive."—M. Thiers, Enquête sur le 4 Septembre, vol. i. p. 9.