360.) Thus too his Grace the Archbishop of Aix perorating once, with a plaintive pulpit tone, in these words?
"Tithe, that free-will offering of the piety of Christians"-- "Tithe," interrupted Duke la Rochefoucault, with the cold business-manner he has learned from the English, "that free-will offering of the piety of Christians; on which there are now forty-thousand lawsuits in this realm." (Dumont, Souvenirs sur Mirabeau, p.

21.) Nay, Lafayette, bound to speak his opinion, went the length, one day, of proposing to convoke a 'National Assembly.' "You demand States-General ?" asked Monseigneur with an air of minatory surprise.--"Yes, Monseigneur; and even better than that."-- "Write it," said Monseigneur to the Clerks.

(Toulongeon, Histoire de France depuis la Revolution de 1789 (Paris, 1803), i.app.

4.)--Written accordingly it is; and what is more, will be acted by and by..