[Footnote 2301: De Tocqueville, "L'Ancien régime et la Revolution." p. 64 and following pages, also p.354 and following pages.--"The Ancient Régime," p. 368.] [Footnote 2302: "The Revolution," I., book I., especially pp. 16, 17, 55, 61, 62-65. (Laffont I., 326, 354, 357 to 360.)] [Footnote 2303: "The Ancient Regime," pp.--36-59. (Laff. I. pp. 33-48.)] [Footnote 2304: Ibid., pp. 72-77. (Laff. I. pp. 59 to 61.)] [Footnote 2305: Ibid., pp. 78-82. (Laff. I. pp. 50-52)] [Footnote 2306: Cf. Frédéric Masson, "Le Marquis de Grignan," vol. I.] [Footnote 2307: "The Revolution," I., p. 161 and following pages; II., book VI., ch. I., especially p. 80 and following pages. (Laffont I. 428 to 444, 632 and II 67 to 69.)] [Footnote 2308: Ibid., I., P.193 and following pages, and p.226 and following pages.(Ed. Laffont. I. 449 to 452, 473 to 481.)] [Footnote 2309: "Souvenirs", by PASQUIER (Etienne-Dennis, duc), chancelier de France. in VI volumes, Librarie Plon, Paris 1893. I., 148 (in relation to the institution prefects and sub-prefects): "The perceptible good resulting from this change was the satisfaction arising from being delivered in one day from a herd of insignificant men, mostly without any merit or shadow of capacity and to who the administration of department and arrondissement had been surrendered for the past ten years. As nearly all of them sprung from the lowest ranks in society, they were only the more disposed to make the weight of their authority felt."] [Footnote 2310: Guyot, "Répertoire de jurisprudence" (1785), article King: "It is a maxim of feudal law that the veritable ownership of lands, the domain, directum dominium, is vested in the dominant seignior or suzerain. The domain in use, belonging to the vassal or tenant, affords him really no right except to its produce."] [Footnote 2311: Luchaire," Histoire des institutions monarchiques de la France sous les premiers Capétiens," I., 28, 46. (Texts of Henry I., Philip I., Louis VI., and Louis VII.) "A divine minister."--(Kings are) "servants of the kingdom of God."--"Gird on the ecclesiastical sword for the punishment of the wicked."--"Kings and priests alone, by ecclesiastical ordination, are made sacred by the anointing of holy oils."] [Footnote 2312: "The Revolution," III., p.94. (Laffont II, p. 75)] [Footnote 2313: Janssen, "L'Allemagne à la fin du moyen âge" (French translation), I., 457. (On the introduction of Roman law into Germany.)--Declaration of the jurists at the Diet of Roncaglia: "Quod principi placuit, legis habet vigorem."--Edict of Frederick I., 1165: "Vestigia praedecessorum suorum, divorum imperatorum, magni Constantini scilicet et Justiniani et Valentini,... sacras eorum leges,... divina oracula.... Quodcumque imperator constituerit, vel cognoscens decreverit, vel edicto praeceperit, legem esse constat."--Frederick II.: "Princeps legibus solutus est."--Louis of Bavaria: "Nos qui sumus supra jus."]