Volume 5 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link book Volume 5 (of 6) 56/64 542-543)--Albert Babeau, "le Recrutement militaire sous l'ancien Regime." (In "la Reforme sociale" of Sept. 229, 238.)--An officer says, "only the rabble are enlisted because it is cheaper."-- Yung, ibid., I., 32. |