amount. The following facts show the variation
between official and actual sums.

1. In the "Almanach Royal," the bishopric of Troyes is valued at 14,000
livres; in "France Ecclesiastique of 1788," at 50,000. According
to Albert Babeau ("Histoire de la Revolution dans le department de
l'Aube"), it brings in 70,000 livres. In "France Ecclesiastique," the
bishopric of Strasbourg is put down at 400,000 livres. According to the
Duc de Levis ("Souvenirs," p. 156) it brings in at least 600,000 livres
income.

2. In the same work, the abbey of Jumieges is assigned for 23,000
livres. I find, in the papers of the ecclesiastic committee, it brings
to the abbe 50,000 livres. In this work the abbey of Beze is estimated
at 8,000 livres. I find it bringing to the monks alone 30,000, while the
abbes portion is at least as large. ("De l'Etat religieux, par les abbes
de Bonnefoi et Bernard.," 1784). The abbe thus receives 30,000 livres,
Bernay (Eure), is officially reported at 16,000. The "Doleances" of the
cahiers estimate it at 57,000. Saint-Amand is put down as bringing to
the Cardinal of York 6,000 livres and actually brings him 100,000. (De
Luynes, XIII. 215).

Clairvaux, in the same work, is put down at 9,000, and in Warroquier
("Etat General de la France en 1789,") at 60,000. According to Beugnot,
who belongs to the country, and a practical man, the abbe has from
300,000 to 400,000 livres income.

Saint-Faron, says Boiteau, set down at 18,000 livres, is worth 120,000
livres.

The abbey of Saint-Germain des Pres (in the stewardships), is put down
at 100,000 livres. The Comte de Clermont, who formerly had it, leased
it at 160, 000 livres, "not including reserved fields and all that the
farmers furnished in straw and oats for his horses." (Jules Cousin,
"Comte de Clermont and his Court.")

Saint-Waas d'Arras, according to "La France Ecclesiastique," brings
40,000 livres. Cardinal de Rohan refused 1,000 livres per month for
his portion offered to him by the monks. (Duc de Levis, "Souvenirs," p.
156). Its value thus is about 300,000 livres.

Remiremont, the abbess always being a royal princess, one of the most
powerful monasteries, the richest and best endowed, is officially valued
at the ridiculous sum of 15,000 livres.

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END-NOTE 4:

ON THE EDUCATION OF PRINCES AND PRINCESSES.

An entire chapter might be devoted to this subject; I shall cite but a
few texts.

(Barbier, "Journal," October, 1670). The Dauphin