Lenin: 1916/ni-gamma: LESCURE, SAVINGS IN FRANCE (original) (raw)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “γ”

(“GAMMA”)

LESCURE, SAVINGS IN FRANCE

Jean Lescure, Savings in France, Paris, 1914.

| | Author’s preface says this work has been publishedin Schriften des Vereins für So-zialpolitik, Vol. 137, III—in a survey ofsavings in various countries. | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | N.B. | | | |

Note p. 110, table VI. “Statistics of French Wealth” (according to Mr. Neymarck).

Thousand million francs
	French securities		Foreign securities
1850	— — —	9	— — — — — — — — —	—
1860	— — —	31	— — — — — — — — —	—
1869	— — —	33	— — — — — — — — —	10
1880	— — —	56	— — — — — — — — —	15
1890	— — —	74	— — — — — — — — —	20
1902	— — —	from	87	to	90— — — — — — — —	from	25	to	27
1909	— — —	”	105	”	116— — — — — — — —	”	35	”	40

Deposited securities (million francs) (p. 51)
Crédit Lyonnais		Société Générale		Comptoir d’Escompte
1863	—	9.8	—	57.4	—	—
1869	—	54.6	—	88.3	—	—
1875	—	139.7	—	205.7	—	—
1880	—	244.6	—	253.7	—	—
1890	—	300.8	—	251.9	—	122.9
1900	—	546.3	—	347.6	—	365.4
1910	—	839.0	—	562.2	—	633.3
1912	—	859.6	—	446.5	—	674.3

Number of accounts with the Crédit Lyonnais (p. 52)[1]:

1863	—	2,568		1890	—
1869	—	14,490	1900	—	263,768
1875	—	28,535	1912	—	633,539
1880	—	63,674

p. 60: “Sums put to reserve by nine French iron and steel companies”:

Average (annual) for 1904-08 = 23.8 million francs (for the present, no more notes from this source).

Notes

[1] See present edition, Vol. 22. p. 214.—Ed.