法国在第二次鸦片战争中所获赔款的分配方案——以法国外交部档案为基础史料的考察

The Allocation of War Indemnity Paid to France afterthe Second Opium War: An Archival Research

第二次鸦片战争中,中法双方达成了800万两白银的赔偿协议,并明确规定其中100万两用于赔偿遭受损失的法国商人、受法国保护者以及传教士,剩余700万两纳入军费。本文从法国外交部档案馆所藏相关史料出发,考察法国对这100万两战争赔款进行分配的方案和进程。

Defeated by foreign troops in the Second Opium War( 1856—1860),the Qing government had to pay 8,000,000 tael of silver to France as the war indemnity. It was stipulated that one million was the compensation for the losses of French merchants,missionaries and protected persons and the left was used as the war fund. Having the research solidly based on archives of France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs,the present paper investigates thoroughly the allocation of the one-million compensation and in doing so it brings to light the embarrassing truths involving France's extortion of money from the Qing government,the collusion between French government and missionaries,and the evilness of foreign firms.