The french armies, struggling to defend the infant Republic were ever hungry for more recruits, more uniforms, boots, gunpowder, muskets, cannons and the minutiae of military equipment that was necessary for the army to march and fight. There were shortages of everything the armies needed, most of all money. The treasury was all but empty and the National Assembly had been forced to issue paper currence -assignats- that were openly traded at a fraction of their face value. It cost the government nothing to print yet more assignats to pay for the uniforms. If the mill-owner made a loss trading them on, that was his own problem. PARIS, 1795.
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