[Footnote 1419: Nicolardot, "Journal de Louis XVI.," p. 228. Appropriations in the Red Book of 1774 to 1789: 227,985,716 livres, of which 80,000,000 are in acquisitions and gifts to the royal family.--Among others there are 14,600,000 to the Comte d'Artois and 14,450,000 to Monsieur.--7,726,253 are given to the Queen for Saint-Cloud.--8,70,000 for the acquisition of Ile-Adam.] [Footnote 1420: Cf. "Compte général des revenus et dépenses fixes au 1er Mai, 1789" (Imprimerie royale, 1789, in 4to). Estate of Ile-Dieu, acquired in 1783 of the Duc de Mortemart, 1,000,000; estate of Viviers, acquired of the Prince de Soubise in 1784, 1,500,000.--Estates of St. Priest and of St. Etienne, acquired in 1787 of M. Gilbert des Voisins, 1,335,935.--The forests of Camors and of Floranges, acquired of the Duc de Liancourt in 1785, 1,200,000.--The county of Montgommery, acquired of M. Clement de Basville in 1785, 3,306,604.] [Footnote 1421: "Le President des Brosses," by Foisset. (Remonstrances to the king by the Parliament of Dijon, Jan. 19, 1764).] [Footnote 1422: Lucas de Montigny, "Mémoires de Mirabeau." Letter of the bailiff, May 26, 1781.--D'Argenson, "Mémoires," VI. 156, 157, 160, 76; VI. p. 320.--Marshal Marmont, "Mémoires," I. 9.--De Ferrières, "Mémoires," preface. See, on the difficulty in succeeding, the Memoirs of Dumourier. Châteaubriand's father is likewise one of the discontented, "a political frondeur, and very inimical to the court." (I. 206).--Records of the States-General of 1789, a general summary by Prud'homme, II. passim.] [Footnote 1423: "Ephémérides du citoyen," II. 202, 203.--Voltaire, "Dictionnaire philosophique," article "Curé de Campagne."--Abbé Guettée, "Histoire de l'Eglise de France," XII. 130.] [Footnote 1424: Those entitled to tithes in cereals.--TR.] [Footnote 1425: A curate's salary at the present day (1875) is, at the minimum, 900 francs with a house and perquisites.] [Footnote 1426: Théron de Montaugé, "L'Agriculture les classes rurale, dans le pays Toulousain," p. 86.] [Footnote 1427: Périn, "la Jeunesse de Robespierre," grievances of the rural parishes of Artois, p. 320.--Boivin-Champeaux, ibid.. pp. 65, 68.--Hippeau, ibid.. VI. p. 79, et VII. 177.--Letter of M. Sergent, curate of Vallers, January 27, 1790. (Archives nationales, DXIX. portfolio 24.) Letter of M. Briscard, curate of Beaumont-la-Roger, diocese of Evreux, December 19, 1789. (ibid.. DXIX. portfolio 6.) "Tableau moral du clergé de France" (1789), p. 2.] [Footnote 1428: He who has the right of receiving the first year's income of a parish church after a vacancy caused by death.--TR.] [Footnote 1429: One who performs masses for the dead at fixed epochs.--TR.] [Footnote 1430: Grievances on the additional burdens which the Third-Estate have to support, by Gautier de Bianzat (1788), p 237.]