Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1899 — Salary of the French President. [ARTICLE]

Salary of the French President.

President Loubet’s salary is £25,000, but the expenses of the Presidential establishment are double that sum, and even this does not Include the pay of army officers attached to the Presidential household, or the cost of keeping the Elysee and other palaces used by the President in a state of repair. The Elysee is President Loubet’s town residence, but he has also at his disposal the former royal palaces of Fontainebleau and Rambouillet, which are furnished and maintained at the expense of the state. It will be easily understood that the Presidential salary is inadequate to the demands made upon the Presidential purse, and the only President who made both ends meet was M. Grevy.