(Senatorerie of Caen, Germinal 17, year XIII.) Constant lamentations of bishops and most of the priests he has met.

"A poor cure, an unfortunate cure,...

The bishop invites you to dinner, to partake of the poor cheer of an unfortunate bishop on 12,000 francs salary."-- The episcopal palaces are superb, but their furniture is that of a village cure; one can scarcely find a chair in the finest room.--"The officiating priests have not yet found a fixed salary in any commune....

The peasants ardently longed for their usual mass and Sunday service as in the past, but to pay for this is another thing."] [Footnote 31109: Decrees of May 31 and Dec.

26, 1804, assigning to the Treasury the salaries of 24,000 and then 30,000 assistant-priests.] [Footnote 31110: Charles Nicolas, "le Budget de la France depuis le commencement du XIXe siecle;" appropriation in 1807, 12,341,537 francs.] [Footnote 31111: Decrees of Prairial 2, year XII, Nivose 5.