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The following table exhibits the movements of French commerce from 1859 to 1875 : 



The foreign countries chiefly interested in the trade of France in the years 1873, 1874 and 

 1875, were the following : 



The commerce of France with its colonies daring the same period .was as follows: 



The population of Paris, according to the 

 provisional returns of the census of 1876, was 

 1,986,748, or 134,965 more than according to 

 the census of 1872. The number of births in 



1875 was 53,878, or 27,541 males and 26,837 

 females ; and of deaths 45,544, or 23,457 males 

 and 22,087 females. Of the births 14,212, or 

 more than 26 per cent., were illegitimate. The 



