Read the admirable letter of the Chevalier de Mesgrigny, appointed colonel during the suspension of the King, and refusing his new rank.] [Footnote 2236: Cf.

the "Memoires" of M.de Boustaquet, a Norman gentleman.] [Footnote 2237: Cf.

"The Ancient Regime," books I.and II.] [Footnote 2238: Boivin--Champeaux, "Notice Historique sur la Revolution dans le Departement de L'Eure," the register of grievances.

In 1788, at Rouen, there was not a single profession made by men.

In the monastery of the Deux-Amants the chapter convoked in 1789 consisted of two monks.--"Archives Nationales," papers of the ecclesiastic committee, passim.] [Footnote 2239: "Apologie de l'Etat Religieux" (1775), with statistics.
Since 1768 the decline is "frightful." "It is easy to foresee that in ten or twelve years most of the regular bodies will be absolutely extinct, or reduced to a state of feebleness akin to death."] [Footnote 2240: Sanzay, I.224 (November, 1790).