After the French invasion, the financial structure of the Ancien Régime was unable to cover the volume of expenditure demanded by the occupying authorities and by the guerrillas who were quick to oppose it. The war machine needed sufficient capital to feed and pay the troops and guarantee their movements in a strategic frontier territory. On the basis of the capital obtained from the Navarrese people by the French administration – through cash taxes – the 45 million reales de vellón were clearly insufficient to cover the supplies consumed between February 1808 and July 1813. If we add a part of the contributions levied in money to pay soldiers and maintain the government’s administration, the real estimate would be less than 42% of the expenditure on supplies.
Collection: Statistics
Project: 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity., 4. Family, daily life and social inequality in Europe.
Chronology: XIX
Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University
Resource type: Statistics
Format: Table
Source: De la Torre, Joseba, «Crisis de una economía agraria y respuestas campesinas en la quiebra del Antiguo Régimen: Navarra, 1808–1820 Revista de Historia Económica, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 8, 1 (1990), pp. 11–38.
Language: Spanish
Date: 1990
Owner: Álvaro Romero González (Modernalia)
Copyright: © Joseba de la Torre © Revista de Historia Económica
Abstract: Contributions in cash or in kind to finance the Navarrese armies during the Napoleonic invasion
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