So gleeful.
However, if you could choke back your bias long enough to actually do even the most meagre reseach, you would be able to note that the crown holdings of the French Empire were by no means odd at a level of 500 million francs.
They were on a par with Denmark and Prussia.
They were more than in Spain, but the Spanish crown also took an additional share of the Indies trade.
They were quite lower than Britain.
And for Russia .... well our feudal friends were not even up to separating the crown holdings from the government ... the Tsar held the whole country in grand-fief direct from God Himself !
Research ieading to rational comparisons and balanced judgments is sadly so rare among modern historians, leading to my DEEP DISTRUST of the biased and ill-informed drivel that they pass off as scholarship to the gullible man in the street.
"Ha!" indeed.
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1806 Prussian royal domain revenues : 6,334,319 thaler = 23.8 million francs
Assuming revenues were at a 5% rate of return, the Prussian royal domains would have a value of 476 million francs.
Adolph Friedrich Johann Riedel (1809-1872)
Der Brandenburgisch-Preussische Staatshaushalt in den beiden letzten Jahrhunderten
Berlin: Ernst & Korn., 1866.
http://books.google.com/books?id=0mVRAAAAMAAJ
Data on Prussian state finance, 1688-1806
Redakt. Prof. Martin H. Körner, Universität Bern.
http://www.le.ac.uk/hi/bon/ESFDB/KORNER/PRUSSIA/prussia.html
Exchange rate
.... 3.76 French francs = 1 Prussian Reichstaler of 24 Groschen
Imperial Almanach 1806
page 827
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1806 Britiah crown revenues : 1,824,000 pounds sterling = 44.9 million francs
Assuming revenues were at a 5% rate of return, the Britiah royal domains would have a value of 899 million francs.
'The political economy of British taxation, 1660-1815'
P. K. O'Brien, Director of the Institute of Historical Research
Economic history review, 2nd ser., 41 (1988), pages 1-32.
Redaction by Professor O'Brian
http://www.le.ac.uk/hi/bon/ESFDB/OBRIEN/obrien.html
Exchange rate
.... 24.64 French francs = 1 British pound
Imperial Almanach 1806
page 827
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1806 Danish crown revenues : 5,544,726 Danish thaler = 31.6 million francs
Assuming revenues were at a 5% rate of return, the Danish royal domains would have a value of 632 million francs.
Historisk statistik Fremstilling af Danmarks National og Stats Huusholdning fra Frederik den Fjerdes Tid indtil Nutiden
Mendel Leven Nathanson
Copenhagen: 1836.
The full text is not available on Google books, but extensive selections from it can be found here :
Dansk statistiks historie, 1800-1850
Denmark Statistiske departement (1901)
http://books.google.com/books?id=EyQoAAAAYAAJ
Redaction by Dr. Bjørn Poulsen, Rigarchivet, Copenhagen
http://www.le.ac.uk/hi/bon/ESFDB/POUL/poul.html
Exchange rate
.... 5.69 French francs = 1 Danish thaler
Imperial Almanach 1806
page 827
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1806 Spanish Demense Royal revenues : 189,677 escudos d'oro = 7,467,080 réales de vellon = 4.3 million francs
Assuming revenues were at a 5% rate of return, the Spanish royal domains would have a value of 87 million francs.
Note : excludes crown share of revenues from the trade to the Indies and other chartered monopolies.
Redaction by Professor Richard Bonney, European State Finance Database
http://www.le.ac.uk/hi/bon/ESFDB/RJB/SPAIN/spain.html
Exchange rate
.... 0.58 French francs = 1 Spanish réale
Imperial Almanach 1806
page 827
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