Local Community.
Local societies .-- Their principal and distinctive character .-- Their type on a small scale .-- A dwelling-house in Annecy or Grenoble .-- Compulsory association of its inmates .-- Its object and limits .-- Private in character.
Let us first consider local society whether a province, a department, or a county.

For the past ten years (1789-99), the legislator has unceasingly deformed and assaulted.

On his side, he refuses to open his eyes; preoccupied with theories, he will not recognize it for what it is in reality, a society of a distinct species, different from the State, with its own peculiar aims, its limits marked out, its members prescribed, its statutes drawn up, everything formed and defined beforehand.

As it is local, it is founded on the greater or less proximity of its habitations.

Thus, to comprehend it, we must take a case in which this proximity is greatest that of certain houses in some of our southeastern towns, as, for example, Grenoble and Annecy.