Reynaud lifted his pen. "Bond issuance is prepared. We will peg initial rates to sterling and prepare conversion measures."
Auriol looked around the table. "We've written a new page. Not just a budget. A promise."
Moreau closed his binder. "Then we move. Not as a clique. Not as a regime. But as a Republic."
Outside the chamber, aides and clerks waited for instructions.
They carried folders of final drafts and stamped forms.
Some would travel to Lyon, others to Algiers or Bordeaux.
That night, France's ministries would not sleep.
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1937 Emergency National Budget
Provisional Government of the French Republic
Date: April 12, 1937
Presented by: Étienne Moreau, Head of State
Total Allocation: ₣100,000,000,000
National Reconstruction & Infrastructure – ₣30,000,000,000
Program Allocation Notes on Adjustment
National Highway Network ₣8 billion.
Continues integration of rural motor routes
Railway Expansion (Industrial Corridors)