SR.)] [Footnote 1209: Boiteau, "Etat de la France en 1789," p.47.

Voltaire, "Politique et Legislation," the petition of the serfs of St.Claude.] [Footnote 1210: Necker, "De l'Administration des Finances," II.

272.] [Footnote 1211: De Bouille, "Memoires," p.41.It must not be forgotten that these figures must be doubled to show corresponding sums of the present day.

10,000 livres (francs) rental in 1766 equal in value 20,000 in 1825.

(Madame de Genlis, "Memoirs," chap.