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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 1 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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How could there be one?
The nobles takes no interest in anything, excepting a few just and benevolent seigniors who take advantage of their influence with vassals to prevent affrays."] [Footnote 1316: Records of the States-General of 1789.

Many of the registers of the noblesse consist of the requests by nobles, men and women, of some honorary distinctive mark, for instance a cross or a ribbon which will make them recognizable.] [Footnote 1317: De Boulle, "Memoires," p.50 .-- De Toqueville, ibid..

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118, 119 .-- De Lomenie, "Les Mirabeau," p.132.A letter of the bailiff of Mirabeau, 1760 .-- De Chateaubriand, Memoires," I.14, 15, 29, 76, 80, 125 .-- Lucas de Montigny, "Memoires de Mirabeau," I.160 .-- Reports of the Societe du Berry.

"Bourges en 1753 et 1754," according to a diary (in the national archives), written by one of the exiled parliamentarians, p.

273.] [Footnote 1318: "La vie de mon pere," by Retif de la Bretonne, I.146.] [Footnote 1319: The rule is analogous with the other coutumes (common-law rules), of other places and especially in Paris.


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