Banque de France evacuates its gold reserves
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- Lords of Finance whole source · open book
Few people—certainly not the Germans—were yet aware that on August 18, with the invaders still two hundred miles away in Brussels, the Banque de France had already set in motion its emergency plan—Paris, after all, had fallen to foreigners three times in the previous hundred years.
chapter: 5. L’INSPECTEUR DES FINANCES - FRANCE: 1914