"Only through the influence of Monsieur Saillard.

No other chief clerk gets that in any of the divisions." Paulmier.

"Bah! Hasn't Monsieur Cochin three thousand?
He succeeded Monsieur Vavasseur, who served ten years under the Empire at four thousand.

His salary was dropped to three when the King first returned; then to two thousand five hundred before Vavasseur died.

But Monsieur Cochin, who succeeded him, had influence enough to get the salary put back to three thousand." Colleville.