Statistics for occurrence #1 of “France” in article pos=41 of The Daily Dispatch: September 21, 1861., [Electronic resource]:
...nd the French rentes, paying four and a half per cent., are sold at about ninety-eight.
The advantages of our Government loan, as well secured, certainly, as the national debts of either England or France , are obvious to the simplest mind, and it would be something very remarkable if there should not be a very considerable investment in them on foreign account.
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