OFFICE OF THE HEAD OF STATE OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC
Palais Bourbon, Paris | April 1937
Official Statement: Fiscal Draft Budget for the Year 1937
Étienne Moreau, Head of State
Esteemed Ministers, Delegates of the National Council, and Fellow Citizens,
This is a draft Budget which is being released into the public for more deliberation.
After 2 days inputs will be taken from all over France and than the committee with discuss those issues and finally release the offical financial budget.
France, burdened by the calamities of global depression, political disarray, and creeping despair, stands today at the edge of reclamation.
Therefore, I lay before you the first draft of National Reconstruction Budget, amounting to a total expenditure of One Hundred Billion French Francs (₣100,000,000,000).
National Reconstruction and Infrastructure Development – ₣30 Billion
The cornerstone of our recovery lies in rebuilding France's arteries its roads, rails, ports, and homes.
