[13] Arthur Young, I. 283 (Aug. 13, 1789); I. 289 (Aug. 19, 1789).

[14] Archives nationales, H, 274.  Letters respectively of M. de Caraman (March 18 and April 12, 1789); M. d’Eymar de Montmegran (April 2); M. de la Tour (March 30).  “The sovereign’s greatest benefit is interpreted in the strangest manner by an ignorant populace.”

[15] Doniol, “Hist.  Des classes rurales,” 495. (Letter of Aug. 3, 1789, to M. de Clermont-Tonnerre).

[16] Archives nationales, H. 1453. (Letter of Aug. 3, 1789, to M. de Clermont-Tonnere).

[17] Procès-verbaux de l’ass.  Prov.  D’Orléanais,” p. 296."Distrusts still prevails throughout the rural districts. . .  Your first orders for departmental assemblies only awakened suspicion in certain quarters.”

[18] “Tableau de Paris,” XII. 186.

[19] Mme. Vigée-Lebrun, I. 158, (1788); I. 183 (1789).

[20] Archives nationals, H. 723. (Letter of M. de Caumartin, intendant at Besançon, Dec. 5, 1788).

[21] D’Argenson, March 13, 1752.

[22] “Corresp.,” of Métra, V, 179 (November 22, 1777).

[23] Beugnot, I. 142.  “No inhabitant of the barony of Choiseul mingled with any of the bands composed of the patriots of Montigny, smugglers and outcasts of the neighborhood.” — See, on the poachers of the day, “Les deux amis de Bourbonne,” by Diderot.

[24] De Calonne, “Mémoires presentés à l’ass. des notables,” No. 8. - Necker, “De l’Administration des Finances,” I. 195.

[25] Letrosne, “De l’Administration des Finances,” 59.

[26] Archives nationales, H. 426. (Mémoires of the farmers-general, Jan. 13, 1781, Sept. 15, 1782).  H, 614. (Letter of M. de Coetlosquet, April 25, 1777).  H, 1431.  Report by the farmers-general, March 9, 1787.

[27] Archives nationales, H, 1453.  Letter of the Baron de Bezenval, June 19, 1789.

[28] “Mandrin,” by Paul Simian, passim. — “Histoire de Beaume,” by Rossignol, p. 453. — “Mandrin,” by Ch.  Jarrin (1875).  Major Fisher, who attacks and disperses the gang, writes that the affair is urgent since, “higher to the North near Forez, one can find two or three hundred vagrants who only wait for a chance to unite with them.” (p.47.)

[29] Mercier, XI. 116.

[30] See above, book I. p. 55.

[31] Letrosne, ibid. (1779), p. 539.

[32] Archives nationales, F16, 965, and H, 892. (Ordinance of August 4 1764; a circular of instructions of July 20, 1767; a letter of a police lieutenant of Toulouse, September 21, 1787).

[33] Archives nationales, H, 724; H, 554; F4 2397; F16 965. — Letters of the jailers of Carcassonne (June 22, 1789); of Béziers (July 19, 1786); of Nimes (July 1, 1786); of the intendant, M. d’Aine (March 19, 1786).

[34] Archives nationales, H, 554. (Letter of M. de Bertrand, intendant of Rennes, August 7, 1785).