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Thomas Johannes Emilia Maria Pfeil, « La hantise de la banqueroute. Les finances publiques dans la période franco-batave (1795-1810) », Annales historiques de la Révolution française, ID : 10.3406/ahrf.2001.2548
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Tom Pfeil, The Obsessive Fear of Bankruptcy : Public Finance in the Franco-Batavian Period (1795-1810). The Batavian Republic was fundamentally pragmatic in character, inasmuch as it was governed not by ideology but by finance. This was because the Netherlands in the eighteenth century was in crisis, losing its credit and most of its markets. To survive it was therefore necessary to reform the financial system, especially taxation. This policy followed the trend of the Revolution, i. e. the trend towards centralization and uniformi- zation.