"Of this innumerable multitude composing the privileged order scarcely a twentieth part of it can really pretend to nobility of an immemorial and ancient date."-- 4,070 financial, administrative, and judicial offices conferred nobility .-- Turgot, "Collection des Economistes," II.276.

"Through the facilities for acquiring nobility by means of money there is no rich man who does not at once become noble."-- D'Argenson, "Memoires," III.

402.] [Footnote 1324: Necker, "De l'Administration des Finances," II.

271.
Legrand, "L'Intendance de Hainaut," pp.

104, 118, 152, 412.] [Footnote 1325: Even after the exchange of 1784, the prince retains for himself "all personal impositions as well as subventions on the inhabitants," except a sum of 6,000 livres for roads.