(Laffont I.428 to 444, 632 and II 67 to 69.)] [Footnote 2308: Ibid., I., P.193 and following pages, and p.226 and following pages.( Ed.Laffont.

I.449 to 452, 473 to 481.)] [Footnote 2309: "Souvenirs", by PASQUIER (Etienne-Dennis, duc), chancelier de France.

in VI volumes, Librarie Plon, Paris 1893.

I., 148 (in relation to the institution prefects and sub-prefects): "The perceptible good resulting from this change was the satisfaction arising from being delivered in one day from a herd of insignificant men, mostly without any merit or shadow of capacity and to who the administration of department and arrondissement had been surrendered for the past ten years.

As nearly all of them sprung from the lowest ranks in society, they were only the more disposed to make the weight of their authority felt."] [Footnote 2310: Guyot, "Repertoire de jurisprudence" (1785), article King: "It is a maxim of feudal law that the veritable ownership of lands, the domain, directum dominium, is vested in the dominant seignior or suzerain.