[The Origins of Contemporary France Volume 1 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link bookThe Origins of Contemporary France Volume 1 (of 6) CHAPTER II 28/42
Once a captain in his district and a permanent gendarme, he is to become the resident and beneficent proprietor, the voluntary promoter of useful undertakings, obligatory guardian of the poor, the gratuitous administrator and judge of the canton, the unsalaried deputy of the king, that is to say, a leader and protector as previously, through a new system of patronage accommodated to new circumstances.
Local magistrate and central representative, these are his two principal functions, and, if we extend our observation beyond France we find that he exercises either one or the other, or both together. NOTES: [Footnote 1201: See note 1 at the end of the volume] [Footnote 1202: One league (lieu) ca.
4 km.
(SR.)] [Footnote 1203: Suger "Vie de Louis VI.," chap.
VIII .-- Philippe I. became master of the Chateau de Montlhery only by marrying one of his sons to the heiress of the fief.
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