"Evenemens qui se sont passes sous mes yeux pendant la revolution francaise," V.II.

(State of the French army, Jan.

1, 1789.) Total on a peace footing, 177,890 men .-- This is the nominal force; the real force under arms was 154,000; in March 1791, it had fallen to 115,000, through the multitude of desertions and the scarcity of enlistments, (Yung, "Dubois-Crance et la Revolution," I., 158.

Speech by Dubois-Crance.)] [Footnote 3258: "The Ancient Regime," P 390, 391.--"The Revolution," p.

328-330.