(SR.)] [Footnote 1112: See in the "Voyages du Caillaud," in Nubia and Abyssinia, the raids for slaves made by the Pacha's armies; Europe presented about the same spectacle between the years 800 and 900.] [Footnote 1113: See the zeal of subjects for their lords in the historians of the middle ages; Gaston Phoebus, Comte de Foix, and Guy, Comte de Flandres in Froissart; Raymond de Beziers and Raymond de Toulouse, in the chronicle of Toulouse.

This profound sentiment of small local patrimonics is apparent at each provincial assembly in Normandy, Brittany, Franche-Comte, etc.] [Footnote 1114: Suger, Life of Louis VI.] [Footnote 1115: "Les Grand Jours d'Auvergne," by Flechier, ed.

Cheruel.
The last feudal brigand, the Baron of Plumartin, in Poitou, was taken, tried, and beheaded under Louis XV in 1756.] [Footnote 1116: As late as Louis XV a proces verbal is made of a number of cures of the King's evil.] [Footnote 1117: "Memoires of Madame Campan," I.89; II.

215.] [Footnote 1118: In 1785 an Englishman visiting France boasts of the political liberty enjoyed in his country.

As an offset to this the French reproach the English for having decapitated Charles I., and "glory in having always maintained an inviolable attachment to their own king; a fidelity, a respect which no excess or severity on his part has ever shaken." ("A Comparative View of the French and of the English Nation," by John Andrews, p.257.)] [Footnote 1119: Memoirs of D'Augeard, private secretary of the Queen, and a former farmer-general.] [Footnote 1120: The following is the reply of Louis XV.