628.] [Footnote 1345: The example is set by the king who sells to the farmer-generals, for an annual sum, the management and product of the principal indirect taxes.] [Footnote 1346: Voltaire, "Politique et Legislation, La voix du Cure," (in relation to the serfs of St.Claude) .-- A speech of the Duke d'Aiguillon, August 4th, 1789, in the National Assembly: "The proprietors of fiefs, of seigniorial estates, are rarely guilty of the excesses of which their vassals complain; but their agents are often pitiless."] [Footnote 1347: Beugnot.

"Memoires," V.I.p.136 .-- Duc de Levis, "Souvenirs et portraits," p.

156.--"Moniteur," the session of November 22, 1872, M.Bocher says: "According to the statement drawn up by order of the Convention the Duke of Orleans's fortune consisted of 74,000,000 of indebtedness and 140,000,000 of assets." On the 8th January, 1792, he had assigned to his creditors 38,000,000 to obtain his discharge.] [Footnote 1348: King Louis the XVI's brother.

(SR.)] [Footnote 1349: In 1785, the Duke de Choiseul In his testament estimated his property at fourteen millions and his debts at ten millions.

(Comte de Tilly, "Memoires," II.