The Comte Randu - The First Really Important Turning Point

The comtrandu, written by every one's favorite swiss protestant wonder boy, jacques necare, and published in 17 81, was an unexpected best seller. It purported to show that the ministry was balancing its books just fine. But necare was only able to make the numbers add up shunting huge expenditures like war over to this category called extraordinary expenses that don't really count. This bookkeeping slight of hand convinced every literate frenchman with an interest in public affairs that the monarchy was not only solvent, but it might actually be running a surplus here. And that seed would blossom fully into outraged disbelief when the monarchy announced just six years later, that it