Note 359 — II THE RATE FOR NEWSPAPERS
Reading edition
The increase during the Revolutionary period was nevertheless considerable. Before the Revolution the cost of distributing 60,000 prospectuses by post was 200 livres. Under the rates then in operation it would be 3,000 livres, and under the new rates then (1796) proposed, 7,500 livres. Before the Revolution a volume could be sent from one end of France to the other for 12 sous.—A. Belloc, Les Postes françaises, Paris, 1886, p. 353.