NOTEBOOK “γ” (“GAMMA”)

LESCURE, SAVINGS IN FRANCE

Jean Lescure , Savings in France , Paris, 1914.

| | Author’s preface says this work has been published in Schriften des Vereins für So- zialpolitik , Vol. 137, III—in a survey of savings in various countries. |
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Note p. 110, table VI. “Statistics of French Wealth” (according to Mr. Neymarck).

| Thousand million francs |
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| | 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) |
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| | | 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 | — | 144,000 |
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| 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).

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