I.p.

262).] [Footnote 3229: Arthur Young, II., 259.

(Average rate for a day's work throughout France in 1789.)] [Footnote 3230: About 15 millions out of 26 millions, in the opinion of Mallet-Dupan and other observers .-- Towards the middle of the 18th century, in a population estimated at 20 millions, Voltaire reckons that "many inhabitants possess only the value of 10 crowns rental, that others have only 4 or 5, and that more than 6 millions of inhabitants have nothing." ("L'homme aux quarante ecus.")--A little later, Chamfort (I., 178) adds: "It is an incontestable truth that, in France, 7 millions of men beg, and 12 millions of men are incapable of giving anything."] [Footnote 3231: Law of Floreal 3, year X, title II, articles 13, 14, Sec.

3 and 4.] [Footnote 3232: Charles Nicolas, ibid .-- In 1821, the personal and poll tax yields 46 millions; the tax on doors and windows, 21 millions: total, 67 millions.

According to these sums we see that, if the recipient of 100 francs income from real-estate pays 16 fr.