[Footnote 1301: Beugnot, "Mémoires," V. I. p.292.--De Tocqueville, "L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution."] [Footnote 1302: Arthur Young, "Travels in France," II. 456. In France, he says, it is from the eleventh to the thirty-second. "But nothing is known like the enormities committed in England where the tenth is really taken."] [Footnote 1303: Saint-Simon, "Mémoires," ed. Chéruel, vol. I.--Lucas de Montigny, "Mémoires de Mirabeau," I. 53-182.--Marshal Marmont, "Mémoires," I. 9, 11.--Châteaubriand, "Mémoires," I. 17. De Montlosier, "Mémoires," 2 vol. passim.--Mme. de Larochejacquelein, "Souvenirs," passim. Many details concerning the types of the old nobility will be found in these passages. They are truly and forcibly depicted in two novels by Balzac in "Beatrix," (the Baron de Guénic) and in the "Cabinet des Antiques," (the Marquis d' Esgrignon).] [Footnote 1304: A letter of the bailiff of Mirabeau, 1760, published by M. de Loménie in the "Correspondant," V. 49, p.132.] [Footnote 1305: Mme. de Larochejacquelein, ibid. I. 84. "As M. de Marigny had some knowledge of the veterinary art the peasants of the canton came after him when they had sick animals."] [Footnote 1306: Marquis de Mirabeau, "Traité de la Population," p. 57.] [Footnote 1307: De Tocqueville, ibid. p.180. This is proved by the registers of the capitation-tax which was paid at the actual domicile.] [Footnote 1308: Renauldon, ibid.., Preface p. 5.--Anne Plumptre, "A narrative of three years residence in France from 1802 to 1805." II. 357.--Baroness Oberkirk, "Mémoires," II. 389.--"De l'état religieux," by the abbés Bonnefoi and Bernard, 1784, p. 295.--Mme.Vigée-Lébrun, "Souvenirs," p.171.] [Footnote 1309: Archives nationales, D, XIX. portfolios 14, 15, 25. Five bundles of papers are filled with these petitions.] [Footnote 1310: Ibid. D, XIX. portfolio 11. An admirable letter by Joseph of Saintignon, abbé of Domiévre, general of the regular canons of Saint-Sauveur and a resident. He has 23,000 livres income, of which 6,066 livres is a pension from the government, in recompense for his services. His personal expenditure not being over 5,000 livres "he is in a situation to distribute among the poor and the workmen, in the space of eleven years, more than 250,000 livres."] [Footnote 1311: On the conduct and sentiments of lay and ecclesiastical seigniors cf. Léonce de Lavergne, "Les Assemblées provinciales," I vol. Legrand, "L'intendance du Hainaut," I vol. Hippeau, "Le Gouvernement de Normandie," 9 vols.] [Footnote 1312: "The most active sympathy filled their breasts; that which an opulent man most dreaded was to be regarded as insensible." (Lacretelle, vol. V. p. 2.)] [Footnote 1313: Floquet, "Histoire du Parlement de Normandie," vol. VI. p.696. In 1772 twenty-five gentlemen and imprisoned or exiled for having signed a protest against the orders of the court.]