thout adding the poniard of the revenue
speculator."[5278]

Here, and for some time before this, it is not the Countryman who speaks
but the procureur, the lawyer, who places professional metaphors and
theories at his service. But the lawyer has simply translated the
countryman's sentiments into literary dialect.

*****

NOTES:

[Footnote 5201: "Collection des economistes," II. 832. See a tabular
statement by Beaudan.]

[Footnote 5202: "Ephemerides du citoyen," IX. 15; an article by M. de
Butre, 1767.]

[Footnote 5203: "Collection des economistes," I. 551, 562.]

[Footnote 5204: "Proces-verbaux de l'assemblee provinciale de Champagne"
(1787), p. 240.]

[Footnote 5205: Cf., "Notice historique sur la Revolution dans le
departement de l'Eure," by Boivin-Champeaux, p. 37.--A register of
grievances of the parish of Epreville; on 100 francs income the Treasury
takes 22 for the taille, 16 for collaterals, 15 for the poll-tax, 11 for
the vingtiemes, total 67 livres.]

[Footnote 5206: "Proces-verbaux de l'assemblee provinciale de
Ile-de-France" (1787), p. 131.]

[Footnote 5207: "Procex-verbaux de l'ass. prov de la Haute-Guyenne"
(1784), II. 17, 40, 47.]

[Footnote 5208: "Proces-verbaux de l'ass. prov. d'Auvergne" (1787), p.
253.--Doleances, by Gautier de Biauzat, member of the council elected by
the provincial assembly of Auvergne. (1788), p.3.]

[Footnote 5209: See note 5 at the end of the volume.]

[Footnote 5210: "Theron de Montauge," p. 109 (1763). Wages at this time
are from 7 to 12 sous a day during the summer.]

[Footnote 5211: Archives nationales, proces-verbaux and registers of the
States-General, V. 59, p. 6. Memorandum to M. Necker from M. d'Orgeux,
honorary councilor to the Parliament of Bourgogne, 25 Oct. 1788..]

[Footnote 5212: Ibid. H, 1418. A letter of the intendant of Limoges,
Feb. 26, 1784.]

[Footnote 5213: Turgot, II. 259.]

[Footnote 5214: Archives nationales, H, 426 (remonstrances of the
Parliament of Brittany, Feb. 1783).]

[Footnote 5215: Mercier; XI. 59; X. 262.]

[Footnote 5216: Archives nationales, H, 1422, a letter by M d'Aine,
intendant of Limoges (February 17, 1782) one by the intendant of Moulins
(April, 1779); the trial of the community of Mollon (Bordelais), and the
tables of its collectors.]

[Footnote 5217: "Proces-verbaux de l'ass. prov. d'Auvergne," p. 266.]

[Footnote 5218: Albert Babeau, "Histoire de Troyes," I. 72]

[Footnote 5219: "Proces-verbaux de l'as