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the liquidator”: Moreau, The Golden Franc, 12.

255 “My doubt is only about”: Bank of England, letter from Norman to Strong, June 8, 1926. The two bankers did manage: “Strong Refuses to Discuss Finance,” New York Times, June 30, 1926, and “Financiers Gather at Antibes,” New York Times, July 9, 1926.

255-56 Another intrepid journalist: “M. Strong et Sir [sic] Montagu Norman se reposent paisiblement a Antibes,” La Volonté, July 5, 1926.

256 Strong found his French banking: Leffler, The Elusive Quest, 146.

256 By 1926, an estimated forty-five thousand: “Il y a 500,000 Étrangers a Paris,” Le Journal, February 2, 1925.

256 The French press had: “L’Infiltration des Capitaux Américains dans l’Économie Francaise.” La Vie Financier, April 26, 1926.

257 “destructive grasshoppers”: Le Midi, April 17, 1926.

257 On July 11, in a dramatic protest: “Maimed and Blind Lead Paris Parade to Protest on Debt,” New York Times, July 12, 1926.

258 A couple of days later another party: “Reasonable Resentment,” Washington Post, July 26, 1926.

258 “Don’t boast in cafes”: “Our Tourist Troubles in France,” The Literary Digest, August 14, 1926.

259 “Xenophobic displays”: Moreau, The Golden Franc, 53.

259 “friendly but reserved”: Moreau, The Golden Franc, 43.

259 The governor’s suite at the bank: “Leur Vacances,” Le Petit Parisien, September 4, 1927, and Banque de France, Treasures.

260 “Mr. Norman arrived at eleven”: Moreau, The Golden Franc, 51.

260 “stupid, obstinate”: H. A. Siepman, “Central Bank Cooperation,” quoted in Mouré, The Gold Standard Illusion, 156.

261 “a commodity,” “only ready to sell”: Moreau, The Golden Franc, 182.

263 “slave to the books he has written”: Moreau, The Golden Franc, 124.

263 “You are not going to remain”: See the Introduction by Jean-Noël Jeanneney to Rist, Une Saison Gatée, 11.

264 “The level of the franc”: Keynes, Collected Writing: A Tract, 4: 60.

264 “the sacrifices demanded”: Boyle, Montagu Norman, 226.

265 “The past clung to everything”: Ferguson, The House of Rothschild, 458.

265 A familiar figure: Obituary in Le Monde, July 2, 1949.

266 “No cabinet was formed”: Lottman, The French Rothschilds, 136.

266 an enraged mob had howled: Chapman, The Dreyfus Trials, 52.

266 “Maître de Forges”: “‘The Iron Master,’” Time, January 24, 1949, and “Francs and Frenchman,” Time, May 18, 1936.

267 Moreau had had his first taste: Moreau, The Golden Franc, 73.

268 Rothschild and Wendel employed every: Moreau, The Golden Franc, 261, 264, 279; Netter, Histoire de la Banque de France, 153.

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270 “Circumstances rule men”: Herodotus quote from Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 71.

270 “to make a fortune”: Fraser, Every Man a Speculator, 45.

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