Financial transparency of public accounts, a challenge since 1825

CHRONIQUE. Two hundred years ago, the adoption of Charles X's sacre budget, with sumptuous festivals in Reims, made it possible to pass a law allowing to compensate 20,000 French exiled during the French Revolution, to the tune of 800 million francs-gold. The parallel with public finances today is instructive, notes Philippe Askenazy, in his chronicle in the "World".