Had I been defeated at Marengo you would have then had a complete 1814 and 1815."] [Footnote 3211: Beugnot, "Memoires," II., 317.

"To be dressed, taxed, and ordered to take up arms, like most folks, seemed a punishment as soon as one had found a privilege within reach," such, for example, as the title of "dechireur de bateaux" (one who condemns unseaworthy craft and profits by it), or inspector of fresh butter (using his fingers in tasting it), or tide-waiter and inspector of salt fish.

These titles raised a man above the common level, and there were over twenty thousand of them.] [Footnote 3212: See "The Ancient Regime," p.129.

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