Jean de Witt.
[34] Memoires, pp.

249, 251, 266, 267.
[35] Chabaud-Arnault: Revue Mar.

et Col.

1885.
[36] The true significance of this change has often been misunderstood, and hence erroneous inferences as to the future have been drawn.

It was not a case of the new displacing the old, but of the military element in a military organization asserting its necessary and inevitable control over all other functions.
[37] Chabaud-Arnault: Revue Mar.