[Footnote 3125: Sénatus-consulte of April 26, 1802.] [Footnote 3126: Sénatus-consulte of April 26, 1802, title II., articles 16 and 17.--Gaudin, Duc de Gaëte, "Mémoires," I., 183. (Report on the administration of the Finances in 1803.) "The old proprietors have been reinstated in more than 20,000 hectares of forests."] [Footnote 3127: Thibaudeau, ibid., p. 98. (Speech of the First Consul, Thermidor 24, year IX.) "Some of the émigrés who have been pardoned are cutting down their forests, either from necessity or to send money abroad. I will not allow the worst enemies of the republic, the defenders of ancient prejudices, to recover their fortunes and despoil France. I am glad to welcome them back; but it is important that the nation should preserve its forests; the navy needs them."] [Footnote 3128: An arpent measures about an acre and a half.(TR.)] [Footnote 3129: Stourm, "Les Finances de l'ancien régime et de la révolution,"II., 459 to 461.--(According to the figures appended to the projected law of 1825.)--This relates only to their patrimony in real estate; their personal estate was wholly swept away, at first through the abolition, without indemnity, of their available feudal rights under the Constituent and Legislative assemblies, and afterwards through the legal and forced transformation of their personal capital into national bonds (titres sur le grand-livre, rentes) which the final bankruptcy of the Directory reduced to almost nothing.] [Footnote 3130: Pelet de la Lozère, "Opinions de Napoléon au conseil d'état" (March 15th and July 1st, 1806): "One of the most unjust effects of the revolution was to let an émigré; whose property was found to be sold, starve to death, and give back 100,000 crowns of rente to another whose property happened to be still in the hands of the government. How odd, again, to have returned unsold fields and to have kept the woods! It would have been better, starting from the legal forfeiture of all property, to return only 6000 francs of rente to one alone and distribute what remained among the rest."] [Footnote 3131: Léonce de Lavergne, "Economie rurale de la France," p.26. (According to the table of names with indemnities awarded by the law of 1825.)--Duc de Rovigo, "Mémoires," IV., 400.] [Footnote 3132: De Puymaigre, "Souvenirs de l'émigration de l'empire et de la restauration," p.94.] [Footnote 3133: Pelet de la Lozère, ibid., p.272.] [Footnote 3134: De Puymaigre, ibid., passim.--Alexandrine des Écherolles, "Une famille noble pendant la Terreur," pp.328, 402, 408.--I add to published documents personal souvenirs and family narrations.] [Footnote 3135: Duc de Rovigo, "Mémoires," IV., 399. (On the provincial noblesse which had emigrated and returned.) "The First Consul quietly gave orders that none of the applications made by the large number of those who asked for minor situations in various branches of the administration should be rejected on account of emigration."]