[7]. National archives, among the papers of the ecclesiastical
committee, box (portfolios) 10, 11, 13, 25. - Beugnot's Memoirs, I.
49, 79. - Delbos, "L'Eglise de France," I. 399. - Duc de Lévis,
"Souvenirs et Portraits," p.156.

[8]. Léonce de Lavergne, "Économie Rurale en France," p.24. -
Perin, "La Jeunesse de Robespierre," (Statements of grievances in
Artois), p.317. ( In French "cahiers des doleances" - statements of
local complaints and expectations - prepared all over France for use
by their delegates for the Ètats Generaux. SR.)

[9]. Boiteau, "État de la France en 1789," p.47. Voltaire,
"Politique et Legislation," the petition of the serfs of St. Claude.

[10]. Necker, "De l'Administration des Finances," II. 272.

[11]. De Bouillé, "Mémoires," p.41. It must not be forgotten that
these figures must be doubled to show corresponding sums of the
present day. 10,000 livres (francs) rental in 1766 equal in value
20,000 in 1825. (Madame de Genlis, "Memoirs," chap. IX). Arthur
Young, visiting a château in Seine-et-Marne, writes: "I have been
speaking to Madame de Guerchy; and I have learned from this
conversation that to live in a château like this with six men
servants, five maids, eight horses, a garden and a regular table, with
company, but never go to Paris, might be done for 1,000 louis per
annum. It would in England cost 2,000. At the present day in France
24,000 francs would be 50,000 and more." Arthur Young adds: "There are
gentlemen (noblesse) that live in this country on 6,000 or 8000 and
keep two men, two maids, three horses and a cabriolet." To do this
nowadays would require from 20,000 to 25,000. - It has become much