[61].  St. Simon, XII. 457, and Dangeau, VI. 408.  The Marshal de Boufflers at the camp of Compiègne (September, 1698) had every night and morning two tables for twenty and twenty-five persons, besides extra tables; 72 cooks, 340 domestics, 400 dozens of napkins, 80 dozens of silver plates, 6 dozens of porcelain plates.  Fourteen relays of horses brought fruits and liquors daily from Paris; every day an express brought fish, poultry and game from Ghent, Brussels, Dunkirk, Dieppe and Calais.  Fifty dozens bottles of wine were drunk on ordinary days and eighty dozens during the visits of the king and the princes.

[62].  De Luynes, XIV. 149.

[63].  Abbé Georgel, “Mémoires,” 216.

[64].  Sainte-Beuve, “Causeries du lundi,” VIII. 63, the texts of two witnesses, mm. de Genlis and Roland.

[65].  De Luynes, XV. 455, and XVI. 219 (1757).  “The Marshal de Belle-Isle contracted an indebtedness amounting to 1,200,000 livres, one-quarter of it for building great piles of houses for his own pleasure and the rest in the king’s service.  The king, to indemnify him, gives him 400,000 livres on the salt revenue, and 80,000 livres income on the company privileged to refine the precious metals.”

[66].  Report of fixed incomes and expenditures, May 1st, 1789, p. 633. — These figures, it must be noted, must be doubled to have their actual equivalent.

[67].  Mme. de Genlis, “Dict. des Etiquettes,” I. 349.

[68].  Barbier, “Journal,” III, 211 (December, 1750).

[69].  Aubertin, “L’Esprit public au dix-huitième siècle,” 255.

[70].  Mme. de Genlis, “Adèle et Théodore.”  III. 54.

[71].  Duc de Lévis, 68.  The same thing is found, previous to the late reform, in the English army. — Cf.  Voltaire, “Entretiens entre A, B, C,” 15th entretien.  “A regiment is not the reward for services but rather for the sum which the parents of a young man advance in order that he may go to the provinces for three months in the year and keep open house.”

[72].  Beugnot, I. 79.

[73].  Merlin de Thionville, “Vie et correspondances.”  Account of his visit to the chartreuse of Val St. Pierre in Thierarche.

[74].  Mme. de Genlis, “Mémoires,” ch. 7.

[75].  Mme. d’Oberkirk, I. 15.

[76].  Mme. de Genlis, 26, ch.  I. Mme. d’Oberkirk, I. 62.

[77].  De Lauzun, “Mémoires,” 257.

[78].  Marquis de Valfons, “Mémoires,” 60. — De Lévis, 156. — Mme. d’Oberkirk, I, 127, II, 360.

[79].  Beugnot, I, 71. — Hippeau, “Le Gouvernement de Normandie,” passim.

[80].  An occupation explained farther on, page 145. — Tr.

[81].  Mme. de Genlis, " Mémoires,” passim.  “Dict. des Etiquettes,” I. 348.

[82].  Mme. d’Oberkirk, I. 395. — The Baron and Baroness de Sotenville in Molière are people well brought up although provincial and pedantic.