(Note communicated by M.
Naville.) Letter of Baron Maurice, prefect of Dordogne, to M.Maine de Biran, sub-prefect of Bergerac, transmitting to him by order of the minister of the interior a blank form to be filled up by him presenting the "Statistics of young ladies belonging to the most notable families of the arrondissement." The form annexed contained several columns, one for names and given names, others for the future inheritance of real and personal estate, etc.

A clever or energetic prefect, provided with this list, was able and was expected to take an active part in marriages and see that all the large dowries were appropriated on the right side.--"Memoires de Madame de------," part 3rd, ch.VIII., p.

154.
(These very instructive memoirs by a very sincere and judicious person are still unpublished.

I am not authorized to give the name of the author.) "It was at this time that the emperor took it into his head to marry as he saw fit the young girls who had more than 50,000 livres rental." A rich heiress of Lyons, intended for M.Jules de Polignac, is thus wedded to M.de Marboeuf.

M.d'Aligre, by dint of address and celerity, evades for his daughter first M.de Caulaincourt and then M.
de Faudoas, brother-in-law to Savary, and in stead weds her to M.
de Pommereu .-- Baron de Vitrolles, Memoires, I.19.