ient regime enjoyed an
exemption from the tax on salt.]

[Footnote 3248: Stourm, I., 360, 389.--De Foville, 382, 385, 398.]

[Footnote 3249: These figures are given by Gaudin.]

[Footnote 3250: Thiers, XIII., pp.20 to 25.]

[Footnote 3251: Lafayette, "Memoires." (Letter of October 17, 1779, and
notes made in Auvergne, August 1800.) "You know how many beggars there
were, people dying of hunger in our country. We see no more of them.
The peasants are richer, the land better tilled and the women better
clad."--"The Ancient Regime," 340, 34, 342.--"The Revolution," III.,
p.366, 402.]

[Footnote 3252: "The Ancient Regime," P.340. (ED. Laff. I. pp. 254,
256.)-" The Revolution," III., 212. (Ed. Laff. II. p. 271, 297.)]

[Footnote 3253: These two famines were due to inclement seasons and
were aggravated, the last one by the consequences of invasion and the
necessity of supporting 150,000 foreign troops, and the former by the
course taken by Napoleon who applies the maximum afresh, with the same
intermeddling, the same despotism and the same failure as under the
Convention.( "Souvenirs", by PASQUIER (Etienne-Dennis, duc), chancelier
de France. in VI volumes, Librarie Plon, Paris 1893.) "I do not
exaggerate in stating that our operations in the purchase and transport
(of grain) required a full quarter of the time, and often one-third,
more than would have been required in commerce."--Prolongation of the
famine in Normandy. "Bands of famished beggars overran the country....
Riots and pillaging around Caen; several mills burnt.... Suppression of
these by the imperial guard. In the executions which resulted from
these even women were not spared."--The two principal guarantees at the
present day against this public danger are, first, easier circumstances,
and next the multiplication of good roads and of railroads, the dispatch
and cheapness of transportation, and the superabundant crops of Russia
and the United States.]

[Footnote 3254: J. Gebelin, "Histoire des milices provinciales" (1882),
p.87, 143, 157, 288.--Most of the texts and details may be found in
this excellent work.--Many towns, Paris, Lyons, Reims, Rouen, Bordeaux,
Tours, Agen, Sedan and the two generalities of Flanders and Hainault
are examples of drawing by lot; they furnished their contingent by
volunteers enlisted at their own expense; the merchants and artisans,
or the community itself, paying the bounty for enlistment. Besides
this there were many exemptio