more expensive, especially due to the rail-ways, to live in the
provinces. "According to my friends du Rouergue," he says again, "I
could live at Milhau with my family in the greatest abundance on 100
louis (2,000 francs); there are noble families supporting themselves
on revenues of fifty and even twenty-five louis." At Milhau, to day,
prices are triple and even quadruple. - In Paris, a house in the Rue
St. Honore which was rented for 6,000 francs in 1787 is now rented for
16,000 francs.

[12]. "Rapports de l'Agence du clergé de 1780 à 1785." In
relation to the feudal rights the abolition of which is demanded in
Boncerf's work, the chancellor Séguier said in 1775: "Our Kings have
themselves declared that they are, fortunately, impotent to make any
attack on property."

[13]. Léonce de Lavergne, "Les Assemblées provinciales," p.296.
Report of M. Schwendt on Alsace in 1787. - Warroquier, "Etat de la
France en 1789," I.541. - Necker, "De l'Administration des Finances,"
I. 19, 102. - Turgot, (collection of economists), "Réponse aux
observations du garde des sceaux sur la suppression des corvées," I.
559.

[14]. This term embraces various taxes originating in feudal times,
and rendered particularly burdensome to the peasantry through the
management of the privileged classes. -TR.

[15]. The arpent measures between one and one and a half acres. -TR

[16]. De Tocqueville, "L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution," p. 406.
"The inhabitants of Montbazon had subjected to taxation the stewards