1108: Roederer, III., 481. (Senatorerie of Caen, Germinal 17,
year XIII.) Constant lamentations of bishops and most of the priests he
has met. "A poor cure, an unfortunate cure,... The bishop invites you to
dinner, to partake of the poor cheer of an unfortunate bishop on 12,000
francs salary."--The episcopal palaces are superb, but their furniture
is that of a village cure; one can scarcely find a chair in the finest
room.--"The officiating priests have not yet found a fixed salary in any
commune.... The peasants ardently longed for their usual mass and Sunday
service as in the past, but to pay for this is another thing."]

[Footnote 31109: Decrees of May 31 and Dec. 26, 1804, assigning to the
Treasury the salaries of 24,000 and then 30,000 assistant-priests.]

[Footnote 31110: Charles Nicolas, "le Budget de la France depuis le
commencement du XIXe siecle;" appropriation in 1807, 12,341,537 francs.]

[Footnote 31111: Decrees of Prairial 2, year XII, Nivose 5. year XIII,
and Sep. 30, 1807.--Decree of Dec. 30, 1809 (articles 37, 39, 40, 49 and
ch. IV.)--Opinion of the council of state, May 19, 1811.]

[Footnote 31112: These are limited (articles organiques, 5): "All
ecclesiastical functions are gratuitous except the authorized oblations
fixed by the regulations."]

[Footnote 31113: Articles organiques, 73.]

[Footnote 31114: Ibid., 74: "Real property other than dwellings with
their adjoining gardens, shall not be held under ecclesiastical titles
or possessed by ministers of worship by reason of their functions."]

[Footnote 31115: Opinion of the Council of State, January 22, 1805, on
the question whether the communes have become owners of the churches and
parsonages abandoned to them by the law of Germinal 18, year X (articles
organiques).--The Council of State is of the opinion that "the said
churches and parsonages must be considered as communal property." If the
State renounces ownership in these buildings it is not in favor of the
fabrique, cure or bishop, but in favor of the commune.]

[Footnote 31116: In 1790 and 1791 a number of communes had made offers
for national property with a view to re-sell it afterwards, and much of
this, remaining unsold, was on their hands.]

[Footnote 31117: Articles organiques, 26. "The bishops will make no
ordination before submitting the number of persons to the government for
its acceptance."]

[Footnote 31118: "Archives de Grenoble." (Documents communicated by
Mdlle. de Fr