When Indemnities were granted to those whom the Revolution, which drove the royal family from France, nearly beggared, it would have been well if a modest competency had been assigned to those whose sons and husbands shed their blood for their country, and helped to achieve for it that military glory which none can deny it.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner
Other secret articles referred to the Indemnities which were to be found in Germany for some of the potentates who suffered by the changes announced in the public treaty.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
In October the First Consul also concluded peace with Russia, and came to a friendly understanding with the Czar on Italian affairs and the question of Indemnities for the dispossessed German Princes.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose