and his own words .-- Mme Vigee-Lebrun, "Souvenirs," I.71: "I have seen the queen (Marie Antoinette), obliging Madame to dine, then six years of age, with a little peasant girl whom she was taking care of, and insisting that this little one should be served first, saying to her daughter: 'You must do the honors.'" (Madame is the title given to the king's oldest daughter.
SR.)] [Footnote 1331: Moliere, "Misanthrope." This is the "desert" in which Celimene refuses to be buried with Alceste.

See also in "Tartuffe" the picture which Dorine draws of a small town .-- Arthur Young," Voyages en France," I.78.] [Footnote 1332: 'Traite de la Population,' p.

108, (1756).] [Footnote 1333: I have this from old people who witnessed it before 1789.] [Footnote 1334: "Memoires" de M.de Montlosier," I.p.

161,.] [Footnote 1335: Reports of the Societe de Berry, "Bourges en 1753 et 1754," p.

273.] [Footnote 1336: Ibid..