Red book

The Red book was a register where was noted the secret expenditure of monarchy under the reigns of Louis XV of France and of Louis XVI of France. It was called Red book because of its binding in red morocco.

After the Day of August 10th, 1792, following the imprisonment of the king and of its family in the Turn of the Temple the August 13rd 1792, the Sans-culotte S made a great din after the discovery with the Tuileries of this Red book. The Convention ordered which this little book was printed, regarding it as a part compromising for the royalty. But nothing in this book was secret since Jacques Necker itself had been informed of it, as well as the Committee of the pensions of the constituent Assembly. This last distributed the expenditure in ten chapters the March 15th 1790:

  • brothers of the king (Count de Provence and Count d' Artois), 28 million books approximately;

  • gifts and gratifications, 6 million;
  • pensions and treatments, 2 million;
  • alms, 254.000 books;
  • allowances advanced and ready, 15 million;
  • acquisitions, loads, 21 million;
  • businesses of finances, less than 6 million;
  • foreign affairs and stations, 136 million. This sum is most important of all;
  • personal expenditure of the king and the queen, 11,5 million;

The reaching total of the expenditure a little less than 228 million books.

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