[20] Archives nationals， H. 723. (Letter of M. de Caumartin， intendant at Besan？on， Dec. 5， 1788).
[21] D'Argenson， March 13， 1752.
[22] "Corresp.，" of Métra， V， 179 (November 22， 1777).
[23] Beugnot， I. 142. "No inhabitant of the barony of Choiseul mingled with any of the bands composed of the patriots of Montigny， smugglers and outcasts of the neighborhood." - See， on the poachers of the day， "Les deux amis de Bourbonne，" by Diderot.
[24] De Calonne， "Mémoires presentés à l'ass. des notables，" No. 8.
- Necker， "De l'Administration des Finances，" I. 195.
[25] Letrosne， "De l'Administration des Finances，" 59.
[26] Archives nationales， H. 426. (Mémoires of the farmers-general， Jan. 13， 1781， Sept. 15， 1782). H， 614. (Letter of M. de Coetlosquet， April 25， 1777). H， 1431. Report by the farmers-general， March 9， 1787.
[27] Archives nationales， H， 1453. Letter of the Baron de Bezenval， June 19， 1789.
[28] "Mandrin，" by Paul Simian， passim. - "Histoire de Beaume，"by Rossignol， p. 453. - "Mandrin，" by Ch. Jarrin (1875). Major Fisher， who attacks and disperses the gang， writes that the affair is urgent since， "higher to the North near Forez， one can find two or three hundred vagrants who only wait for a chance to unite with them."(p.47.)[29] Mercier， XI. 116.
[30] See above， book I. p. 55.
[31] Letrosne， ibid. (1779)， p. 539.
[32] Archives nationales， F16， 965， and H， 892. (Ordinance of August 4 1764； a circular of instructions of July 20， 1767； a letter of a police lieutenant of Toulouse， September 21， 1787).
[33] Archives nationales， H， 724； H， 554； F4 2397； F16 965. -Letters of the jailers of Carcassonne (June 22， 1789)； of Béziers (July 19， 1786)； of Nimes (July 1， 1786)； of the intendant， M. d'Aine (March 19， 1786).
[34] Archives nationales， H， 554. (Letter of M. de Bertrand， intendant of Rennes， August 7， 1785).
[35] Archives nationales， H， 426. (Remonstrances， Feb. 1783). - H， 554. (Letter of M. de Bertrand， Aug. 17， 1785).
[36] Archives nationales， H， 614 (Mémoire by René de Hauteville， parliamentary advocate， Saint-Brieuc， Dec. 25， 1776.)[37] "Process-verbaux de l'ass. Prov. de Soissonnais" (1787) p.
457.
[38] Archives nationales， H， 616 (A letter of M. De Boves， intendant of Rennes， April 23， 1774).
[39] Périn， "La Jeunesse de Robespierre，" 301. (Doléances des parroisses rurales en 1789).
[40] Hippeau， "Le Gouvern. de Normandie，" VII. 147-177 (1789). -Boivin-Champeaux， "Notice hist. sur la Révolution dans le département de l'Eure，" p. 83 (1789).
[41] Théron de Montaugé， p. 87. (Letter of the prior of the convent， March， 1789).
[42] "Procès-verbaux de l'Ass. prov. de Lyonnais，" p.57. -Archives nationales， F4， 2073. Memorandum of Jan. 24， 1788.
"Charitable assistance is very limited， the provincial authorities providing no resources for such accidents."[43] Levasseur， "La France industrielle，" 119. - In 1862， the population being almost triple (1 696 000) there are but 90 000paupers.
[44] Albert Babeau， "Hist. de Troyes，" I. 91. (Letter of the mayor Huez， July 30， 1788).
[45] Floquet， VII， 506.
[46] Archives nationales， H， 1453. (Letter of M. de Sainte-Suzanne， April 29， 1789).
[47] Arthur Young， I. 256.
[48] "Correspond. secrèt inédite，" from 1777 to 1792， published by M. de Lescure， II. 351 (May 8， 1789). Cf. C. Desmoulins， "La Lanterne，" of 100 rioters arrested at Lyons 96 were branded.
[49] De Bezenval， II. 344， 350. - Dussault， "La Prise de la Bastille，" 352. - Marmontel， II， ch. XIV， 249. --Mme. Vigée-Lebrun， I.
177， 188.
[50] Mercier， I. 32； VI. 15； X. 179； XI. 59； XII. 83. - Arthur Young， I. 122.
[51] In the original， pain de Gonesse， - bread， made in a village of this name near Paris， and renowned for its whiteness. - TR.
[52] "Dialogues sur le commerce des blés，" by Galiani (1770). "If the strong of the markets are content， no misfortune will happen to the administration. The great conspire and rebel； the bourgeois murmurs and lives a celibate； peasants and artisans despair and go away； porters get up riots."