A Rohan, a Dillon, chases the stag although belonging to the church, in spite of edicts and in spite of the canons.
"You hunt too much," said Louis XV.[1352] to the latter; "I know something about it.

How can you prohibit your curates from hunting if you pass your life in setting them such an example ?--Sire, for my curates the chase is a fault, for myself it is the fault of my ancestors." When the vanity and arrogance of caste thus mounts guard over a right it is with obstinate vigilance.

Accordingly, their captains of the chase, their game-keepers, their wood-rangers, their forest-wardens protect brutes as if they were men, and hunt men as if they were brutes.

In the bailiwick of Pont-l'Eveque in 1789 four instances are cited "of recent assassinations committed by the game-keepers of Mme.

d'A----,--Mme.