Note 91 — Chapter III
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"The state of the finances was such, that the government, with all its efforts, could only furnish the chest of the army, at the opening of the campaign, with 2000 louis in specie, and a million in drafts, part of which were protested."—Napoleon, Montholon, tom. iii., p. 140; Thiers, tom. viii., p. 174.