A little later, and of their own accord, they will choose him for commandant in the national guard, mayor of the commune, chief of the insurrection, and, in 1792, the marksmen of the parish are to march under him against "the blues" as, at this epoch against the wolves.

Such are the remnants of the good feudal spirit, like the scattered remnants of a submerged continent.

Before Louis XIV., the spectacle was similar throughout France.

"The rural nobility of former days," says the Marquis de Mirabeau, "spent too much time over their cups, slept on old chairs or pallets, mounted and started off to hunt before daybreak, met together on St.Hubert's, and did not part until after the octave of St.Martin's.

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