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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 1 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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D, XIX.

portfolio 11.

An admirable letter by Joseph of Saintignon, abbe of Domievre, general of the regular canons of Saint-Sauveur and a resident.

He has 23,000 livres income, of which 6,066 livres is a pension from the government, in recompense for his services.

His personal expenditure not being over 5,000 livres "he is in a situation to distribute among the poor and the workmen, in the space of eleven years, more than 250,000 livres."] [Footnote 1311: On the conduct and sentiments of lay and ecclesiastical seigniors cf.


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