ns in the lower class.--Cf. "The Ancient
Regime," p.390. (Ed. Laff. p. 289.)]

[Footnote 3255: J. Gebelin, ibid., 239, 279, 288. (Except the eight
regiments of royal grenadiers in the militia who turned out for one
month in the year.)]

[Footnote 3256: Example afforded by one department. ("Statistics of
Ain," by Rossi, prefect, 1808.) Number of soldiers on duty in the
department, in 1789, 323; in 1801, 6,729; in 1806, 6,764.--"The
department of Ain furnished nearly 30,000 men to the armies, conscripts
and those under requisition."--It is noticeable, consequently, that
in the population of 1801, there is a sensible diminution of persons
between twenty and thirty and, in the population of 1806, of those
between twenty-five and thirty-five years of age. The number between
twenty and thirty is as follows: in 1789, 39,828; in 1801, 35,648; in
1806, 34,083.]

[Footnote 3257: De Dampmartin. "Evenemens qui se sont passes sous mes
yeux pendant la revolution francaise," V. II. (State of the French
army, Jan. 1, 1789.) Total on a peace footing, 177,890 men.--This is the
nominal force; the real force under arms was 154,000; in March 1791,
it had fallen to 115,000, through the multitude of desertions and the
scarcity of enlistments, (Yung, "Dubois-Crance et la Revolution," I.,
158. Speech by Dubois-Crance.)]

[Footnote 3258: "The Ancient Regime," P 390, 391.--"The Revolution,"
p. 328-330. (Ed. Laff. I. 289 and 290, pp. 542-543)--Albert Babeau, "le
Recrutement militaire sous l'ancien Regime." (In "la Reforme sociale"
of Sept. I, 1888, p. 229, 238.)--An officer says, "only the rabble are
enlisted because it is cheaper."--Yung, ibid., I., 32. (Speech by M.
de Liancourt in the tribune.) "The soldier is classed apart and is too
little esteemed."--Ibid., p. 39. ("Vices et abus de la constitution
actuelle francaise," memorial signed by officers in most of the
regiments, Sept. 6, 1789.) "The majority of soldiers are derived from
the offscourings of the large towns and are men without occupation."]

[Footnote 3259: Gebelin, p. 270. Almost all the cahiers of the
third-estate in 1789 demand the abolition of drafting by lot, and nearly
all of those of the three orders are for volunteer service, as opposed
to obligatory service; most of these demand, for the army, a volunteer
militia enlisted through a bounty; this bounty or security in money to
be furnished by communities of inhabitants which, in fact, was already
the case in several town