Excerpt from Greater France The Government had made on Novem ber 15, 1919, advances in excess of 3 bil lion francs to the industrial interests of this region for the reconstruction of their factories, and the budget for 1920 pro vides for the expenditure of nearly 5 billion francs during the first quarter for the same purpose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.