nstrances, Feb.
1783).--H, 554. (Letter of M. de Bertrand, Aug. 17, 1785).]

[Footnote 5336: Archives nationales, H, 614 (Memoire by Rene de
Hauteville, parliamentary advocate, Saint-Brieuc, Dec. 25, 1776.)]

[Footnote 5337: "Process-verbaux de l'ass. Prov. de Soissonnais" (1787)
p. 457.]

[Footnote 5338: Archives nationales, H, 616 (A letter of M. De Boves,
intendant of Rennes, April 23, 1774).]

[Footnote 5339: Perin, "La Jeunesse de Robespierre," 301. (Doleances des
parroisses rurales en 1789).]

[Footnote 5340: Hippeau, "Le Gouvern. de Normandie," VII. 147-177
(1789).--Boivin-Champeaux, "Notice hist. sur la Revolution dans le
departement de l'Eure," p. 83 (1789).]

[Footnote 5341: Theron de Montauge, p. 87. (Letter of the prior of the
convent, March, 1789).]

[Footnote 5342: "Proces-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."]

[Footnote 5343: Levasseur, "La France industrielle," 119.--In 1862,
the population being almost triple (1 696 000) there are but 90 000
paupers.]

[Footnote 5344: Albert Babeau, "Hist. de Troyes," I. 91. (Letter of the
mayor Huez, July 30, 1788).]

[Footnote 5345: Floquet, VII, 506.]

[Footnote 5346: Archives nationales, H, 1453. (Letter of M. de
Sainte-Suzanne, April 29, 1789).]

[Footnote 5347: Arthur Young, I. 256.]

[Footnote 5348: "Correspond. secret inedite," 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.]

[Footnote 5349: De Bezenval, II. 344, 350.--Dussault, "La Prise de la
Bastille," 352.--Marmontel, II, ch. XIV, 249.--Mme. Vigee-Lebrun, I.
177, 188.]

[Footnote 5350: Mercier, I. 32; VI. 15; X. 179; XI. 59; XII. 83.--Arthur
Young, I. 122.]

[Footnote 5351: In the original, pain de Gonesse,--bread, made in a
village of this name near Paris, and renowned for its whiteness.--TR.]

[Footnote 5352: "Dialogues sur le commerce des bles," 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."]

CHAPTER IV. THE ARMED FORCES.

I.

Military force declines.--How the army is recruited.-