nction made by the
resolution of Vendemiaire 28."]

[Footnote 3125: Senatus-consulte of April 26, 1802.]

[Footnote 3126: Senatus-consulte of April 26, 1802, title II., articles
16 and 17.--Gaudin, Duc de Gaete, "Memoires," I., 183. (Report on the
administration of the Finances in 1803.) "The old proprietors have been
reinstated in more than 20,000 hectares of forests."]

[Footnote 3127: Thibaudeau, ibid., p. 98. (Speech of the First Consul,
Thermidor 24, year IX.) "Some of the emigres who have been pardoned
are cutting down their forests, either from necessity or to send
money abroad. I will not allow the worst enemies of the republic, the
defenders of ancient prejudices, to recover their fortunes and despoil
France. I am glad to welcome them back; but it is important that the
nation should preserve its forests; the navy needs them."]

[Footnote 3128: An arpent measures about an acre and a half.(TR.)]

[Footnote 3129: Stourm, "Les Finances de l'ancien regime et de la
revolution,"II., 459 to 461.--(According to the figures appended to the
projected law of 1825.)--This relates only to their patrimony in real
estate; their personal estate was wholly swept away, at first through
the abolition, without indemnity, of their available feudal rights under
the Constituent and Legislative assemblies, and afterwards through the
legal and forced transformation of their personal capital into national
bonds (titres sur le grand-livre, rentes) which the final bankruptcy of
the Directory reduced to almost nothing.]

[Footnote 3130: Pelet de la Lozere, "Opinions de Napoleon au conseil
d'etat" (March 15th and July 1st, 1806): "One of the most unjust effects
of the revolution was to let an emigre; whose property was found to be
sold, starve to death, and give back 100,000 crowns of rente to another
whose property happened to be still in the hands of the government. How
odd, again, to have returned unsold fields and to have kept the woods!
It would have been better, starting from the legal forfeiture of
all property, to return only 6000 francs of rente to one alone and
distribute what remained among the rest."]

[Footnote 3131: Leonce de Lavergne, "Economie rurale de la France,"
p.26. (According to the table of names with indemnities awarded by the
law of 1825.)--Duc de Rovigo, "Memoires," IV., 400.]

[Footnote 3132: De Puymaigre, "Souvenirs de l'emigration de l'empire et
de la restauration," p.94.]

[Footnote 3133: Pelet de la L