is unable to transmit his property by testament but has to leave them
to the next holder of the title. The "mainmortables" were serfs who
belonged to the property. (SR.)

[12]. See in the "Voyages du Caillaud," in Nubia and Abyssinia, the
raids for slaves made by the Pacha's armies; Europe presented about
the same spectacle between the years 800 and 900.

[13]. See the zeal of subjects for their lords in the historians of
the middle ages; Gaston Phoebus, Comte de Foix, and Guy, Comte de
Flandres in Froissart; Raymond de Béziers and Raymond de Toulouse, in
the chronicle of Toulouse. This profound sentiment of small local
patrimonics is apparent at each provincial assembly in Normandy,
Brittany, Franche-Comté, etc.

[14]. Suger, Life of Louis VI.

[15]. "Les Grand Jours d'Auvergne," by Fléchier, ed. Chéruel. The
last feudal brigand, the Baron of Plumartin, in Poitou, was taken,
tried, and beheaded under Louis XV in 1756.

[16]. As late as Louis XV a procès verbal is made of a number of
cures of the King's evil.

[17]. "Mémoires of Madame Campan," I. 89; II. 215.

[18]. In 1785 an Englishman visiting France boasts of the political
liberty enjoyed in his country. As an offset to this the French
reproach the English for having decapitated Charles I., and "glory in
having always maintained an inviolable attachment to their own king; a