The Silver Question

ISBN: 9781331658252 出版年：2016 页码：305 George M Weston Forgotten Books

In France, where this conference was held, Mirabeau had, as far back as 1790, pressed this objection upon the National Assembly with a vigor and eloquence to which the mem bers of the Paris conference could make no pretensions, but after the most thorough debates, covering a period of thir teen years, the French enacted the law of 1803, still sub sisting, establishing the double standard, on a ratio of gold to silver of 15 1-2 to I.