Directly the phase of enormous war loans ends, the new class of rentiers holding the various great new national loans will find themselves drawing this collectively vast income and anxious to invest it.

It is prosperous looking, the home of sturdy farmers and the small rentiers.

The bail des fermes was re-established, the Caisse d'escompte had resumed payment, the stockholders (rentiers) received their quarters' arrears, the loan whereby the comptroller-general met all expenses had reached eleven per cent.

Social stability and mass support come from an extensive middle class composed of public servants and body servants, small tradesmen, self-employed craftsmen, rentiers and retired persons who are assured body comforts, social recognition and preferment for themselves, their relatives and dependants.