Speculation on trade licences, the Fontainebleau seizures and the contraction of credit set off a cascade of bankruptcies in Paris as in Lyon or Amsterdam. The state supported manufacturers with orders and advances, but unemployment and the dearth of 1811 fed discontent. The century's first great industrial crisis cracked consent to the Empire.
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