Note 221 — Chapter XLII · A.D. 1800-1885. THE JEWS IN FRANCE, ITALY, AND GERMANY.
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In a return made in 1808, scarcely more than a year after Napoleon’s edict, it is declared that there were then 80,000 Jews in France, of whom 1,232 were landed proprietors, 250 were manufacturers, and 797 military men, among whom were officers of all ranks, up to field-marshals.