of the duchy which belonged to the Prince de Rohan. This prince caused
this abuse to be stopped and succeeded in recovering the sum of 5,344
livres which he had been made to pay unlawfully under this right"

[17]. Necker, "Administration des Finances:" ordinary taxation (la
taille) produced 91 millions; les vingtièmes 76,500,000; the
capitation tax 41,500,000.

[18]. Raudot, "La France avant la Révolution," p. 51. - De Bouillé,
"Mémoires," p. 44. - Necker, "De 1'Administration des Finances," II,
p. 181. The above relates to what was called the clergy of France,
(116 dioceses). The clergy called foreign, consisted of that of the
three bishoprics and of the regions conquered since Louis XIV; it had
a separate régime and paid somewhat like the nobles. - The décimes
which the clergy of France levied on its property amounted to a sum of
10,500,000 livres.

[19]. De Toqueville, ib. 104, 381, 407. - Necker, ib. I. 102. -
Boiteau, ib. 362. - De Bouillé, ib. 26, 41, and the following pages.
Turgot, ib. passim. - Cf. passim. - Cf. Book V, ch. 2, on the
taillage.

[20]. See "La France ecclésiastique, 1788," for these details.

[21]. Official statements and manuscript reports of the States-
General of 1789. "Archives nationales," vol. LXXXVIII pp. 23, 85, 121,
122], 152. Procès-verbal of January 12, 1789.

[22]. Necker, "De l'Administration des Finances," V. II. pp. 271,
272. "The house Orleans, he says, is in possession of the excises." He