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 published
in Schriften des Vereins für So-
zialpolitik
, Vol. 137, III—in a survey of
savings 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 — 144,000
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.

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