Word: franc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later in the morning the franc broke on the bourse, dropping 9¾ points to 23 to the dollar?the lowest reached since March of last year...
...Paris, concern over the expense of conducting the war was manifest in official and business circles. It is now six weeks since the conflict began; and, judging from the appropriations asked by Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux (100,000,000 francs, covering a period of three months), there is no immediate prospect of defeating the Riff rebels. Meantime, the franc depreciates in value and finance reforms daily become more difficult...
Stooping among his instruments in a lonely observatory at Juvisy, France, Camille Flammarion, 83, famed French astronomer, felt a chill in his side, slipped to the floor. Many hours later, footsteps rang on the stone stairway. The servant who entered found Flammarion where he had fallen. One arm was twisted under his body. His face, scribbled with an extraordinary network of fine lines, was curiously dis- ordered under the bush of his white hair. He was dead. When Camille Flammarion was 9, he saw an eclipse. It was not the spectacle of the little moon lying like a black penny...
...also said that the receipts from Germany would be utilized as follows: two-thirds for reconstruction work, one-third for payment of the U.S. and British debts. There was no possibility, he averred, of improvement in the position of the franc until France's external debt had been settled...
Poincarism; and even if the franc is to follow the route of the. mark, they seem to prefer to let France stew in her Socialist juice for a while...