It has been calculated that the possessions of the princes of the royal family, the Comtes of Artois and of Provence, the Ducs d'Orleans and de Penthievre then covered one-seventh of the territory.[1210] The princes of the blood have together a revenue of from 24 to 25 millions; the Duc d'Orleans alone has a rental of 11,500,000.[1211]--These are the vestiges of the feudal regime.

Similar vestiges are found in England, in Austria, in Germany and in Russia.

Proprietorship, indeed, survives a long time survives the circumstances on which it is founded.

Sovereignty had constituted property; divorced from sovereignty it has remained in the hands formerly sovereign.

In the bishop, the abbot and the count, the king respected the proprietor while overthrowing the rival, and, in the existing proprietor a hundred traits still indicate the annihilated or modified sovereign.
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