I.pp.

23-24, 274, 322, 326-327.)] [Footnote 3244: See "The Ancient Regime," p.361.

(Ed.Laff.

I.p.268.)] [Footnote 3245: Leroy-Beaulieu, ibid., I., 643.] [Footnote 3246: Decrees of November 25, 1808, and December 8, 1824.] [Footnote 3247: Certain persons under the ancient regime enjoyed an exemption from the tax on salt.] [Footnote 3248: Stourm, I., 360, 389 .-- De Foville, 382, 385, 398.] [Footnote 3249: These figures are given by Gaudin.] [Footnote 3250: Thiers, XIII., pp.20 to 25.] [Footnote 3251: Lafayette, "Memoires." (Letter of October 17, 1779, and notes made in Auvergne, August 1800.) "You know how many beggars there were, people dying of hunger in our country.

We see no more of them.
The peasants are richer, the land better tilled and the women better clad."-- "The Ancient Regime," 340, 34, 342.--"The Revolution," III., p.366, 402.] [Footnote 3252: "The Ancient Regime," P.340.