Judge — April 1934 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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Judge ON THE From an interview be n Marie Anto the French Minister of Finance, as described by Alexandre Dinas i The Queen's Necklace” 66 HE queen received him graciously, and said, ‘Have we any money, M. de Calonne? Certainly, ame, we have always mon ‘This is very wonderit!’ replied the queen. ‘T have known no one but you to give that answer to a demand for money. As a financier you are incomparable.” “How much does your majesty require?’ ‘Explain to me. in the first place, I heg of you how, it is you find money where M. Necker said so often that there was none!’ “M. Necker was right, madame: for when I became min- ister on the 5th of November, 1783, there were but two thousand and four hundred frances in the public treasury Had M. Necker, madame, instead of crying out there ts no money, done as I have done. and borrowed 100,000,000 the first year and 125,000,000 the second and had he been as sure as [am of a new loan of 80,000,000 for the third he would have been a true financier. Any one can say; there is no money in the treasury; but it is not every one who can say there shall be money there?” ‘That is what T compliment you on, sir, but how are these ? There is the difficulty.’ ‘Oh, madame, be sure we shall repay them’ replied he with a strange si loans to be repaid ‘Have you any new ideas? If so, let me be the first to share them I beg of vou. ‘I have an idea, madame, which will put twenty millions into the pockets of the Nation.’ ‘They will be welcome, but how are they to be obtained? “Your majesty is aware that gold coin is not of the same value in all of the countries of Europe?’ ‘Certainly in Spain gold is of more value than in France.’ ‘Your majesty is right; it is a pleasure to converse with you upon finance. Gold has been worth in Spain, for the last five or six years, something like eight per cent more than in France; so that there is a gain of about eight franes on every ounce of gold exported,’ ‘That is a great deal! ‘Well, madame, IT mean to increase the price of gold six and two-thirds per cent and where we now have thirty louis > shall then have thirty-two.’ ‘It isa brilliant idea!’ cried the queen’.” comicbooks.com