du Deffant in a letter to Madame de Choiseul,
(quoted by Geffroy), "Gustave et la cour de France," I. 279.]

[Footnote 4239: Geffroy, ibid. I. 232, 241, 245.]

[Footnote 4240: Geffroy, ibid. I.267, 281. See letters by Madame de
Boufflers (October, 1772, July 1774).]

[Footnote 4241: Ibid.. I. 285. The letters of Mme. de la March (1776,
1777, 1779).]

[Footnote 4242: A victim of religious rancor against the protestants,
whose cause, taken op by Voltaire, excited great indignation.--TR.]

[Footnote 4243: Bachaumont, III. 14 (March 28, 1766. Walpole, Oct. 6,
1775).]

[Footnote 4244: Geffloy, ibid. (A letter by Mme Stael, 5776).]

[Footnote 4245: Colle, "Journal," III. 437 (1770): "Women have got the
upper hand with the French to such an extent, they have so subjugated
them, that they neither feel nor think except as they do."]

[Footnote 4246: "Correspondance," by Metra, III. 200; IV. 131.]

[Footnote 4247: "Memoires du Chancelier Pasquier," _Ed. Plon Paris_ 1893,
Vol. I. page 26.]

[Footnote 4248: De Vaublanc, "Souvenirs," I. 117, 377.]

[Footnote 4249: De Segur, "Memoires," I. 17.]

[Footnote 4250: Ibid. I. 151. "I saw the entire Court at the theater in
the chateau at Versailles enthusiastically applaud Voltaire's tragedy of
'Brutus,' and especially these lines:

Je suis fils de Brutus, et je porte en mon coeur La liberte gravee et
les rois en horreur."]

[Footnote 4251: De Lauzun, 80 (in relation to his expedition into
Corsica).]

[Footnote 4252: De Segur, I. 87.]

[Footnote 4253: The assemblies of Berry and Haute-Guyenne began in 1778
and 1779; those of other generalships in 1787. All functioned until
1789. (Cf. Leonce de Lavergne, "Les Assemblees provinciales").]

[Footnote 4254: Leonce de Lavergne, ibid. 26, 55, 183. The tax
department of the provincial assembly of Tours likewise makes its
demands on the privileged class in the matter of taxation.]

[Footnote 4255: Proces-verbaux of the prov. ass. of Normandy, the
generalship of Alencon, 252.--Cf. Archives nationales, II, 1149: in
1778 in the generalship of Moulins, thirty-nine persons, mostly nobles,
supply from their own funds 18,950 livres to the 60,000 livres allowed
by the king for roads and asylums.]

[Footnote 4256: Archives nationales, proces-verbaux and registers of the
States-General, vol. XLIX. p.712, 714 (the nobles and clergy of Dijon);
vol. XVI. p. 183 (the nobles of Auxerre) vol. XXIX. pp.352, 455, 458
(the clergy and nobles of