"Justice is one of the bright sides of France of to-day.

It is costly, but it cannot be called venal."] [Footnote 3111: Rocquain, ibid., 19.

(Report of Francois de Nantes on the 8th military division.) "For the past eighteen months a calm has prevailed here equal to that which existed before the Revolution.

Balls and parties have been resumed in the towns, while the old dances of Provence, suspended for ten years, now gladden the people of the country."] [Footnote 3112: Proclamation to the French people, Dec.

15, 1799.] [Footnote 3113: See "The Revolution," vol.III., p.292.