"We are assured that the people have long been on half-rations, or even quarter rations."-- And yet, "There is now in the river, at Nantes, from four to five hundred boats loaded with grain; they have been there for months, and their number increases daily.

Their cargoes are deteriorating and becoming damaged."] [Footnote 4105: Ibid., preface and summary, p.41 (on the dikes and works of protection against inundations at Dol in Brittany, at Frejus, in Camargue, in Lower Rhine, in Nord, in Pas-de-Calais, at Ostende and Blankenberg, at Rochefort, at La Rochelle, etc.).

At Blankenberg, a gale sufficed to carry away the dike and let in the sea.

"The dread of some disaster which would ruin a large portion of the departments of the Lys and of the Escaut kept the inhabitants constantly in a state of frightful anxiety."] [Footnote 4106: Hence the additional centimes to the tax on doors and windows, the number of which indicates approximately the value of the rent.

Hence also the additional centimes to the personal tax, which is proportionate to the rent, this being considered as the most exact indication of domestic expenditure.] [Footnote 4107: Hence the communal "additional centimes" to the tax on business licenses.] [Footnote 4108: Hence the "additional centimes" to the land tax.] [Footnote 4109: Today, in 1999, we may in Denmark observe how the contemporary oligarchy of non-violent Jacobins, have transformed the local authorities into tools of the central government which through an all permeating administration, has replaced the authority of the father and the solidarity of the family with a communal care and supervision.( SR.).] [Footnote 4110: Syndicates of this kind are instituted by the law of June 25, 1865, "between proprietors interested in the execution and maintenance of public works: 1st, Protection against the sea, inundations, torrents, and navigable or non-navigable rivers; 2d, Works in deepening, repairing, and regulating canals and non-navigable water-courses, and ditches for draining and irrigation; 3d, Works for the drainage of marshes; 4th, Locks and other provisions necessary in working salt marshes; 5th, Drainage of wet and unhealthy ground."-- "Proprietors interested in the execution of the above-mentioned works may unite in an authorized syndical company, either on the demand of one or of several among them, or on the initiative of the prefect."-- (Instead of authorized, we must read forced, and we then find that the association may be imposed on all interested parties, on the demand of one alone, or even without any one's demand.)--Like the Annecy building, these syndicates enable one to reach the fundamental element of local society.Cf.the law of September 26, 1807 (on the drainage of marshes), and the law of April 21, 1810 (on mines and the two owners of the mine, one of the surface and the other of the subsoil, both likewise partners, and no less forcibly so through physical solidarity.)] [Footnote 4111: See "The Revolution," vol.I., passim.