A notary, in a public meeting, dared to interrupt the radical candidate; he was prosecuted in the court for a violation of professional duties, and the judges of judiciary reforms condemned him to three months 'suspension.' This took place, "not in Languedoc, or in Provence, in the south among excited brains where everything is allowable, but under the dull skies of Champagne.
And when I interrogate the conservatives of the West and the Center, they reply: "We have seen many beside these, but is long since we have ceased to be astonished!"] [Footnote 4236: Ibid., p.105: "Each cantonal chief town has its office of informers.

The Minister of Public Worship has himself told that on the first of January, 1890, there were 300 cures deprived of their salary, about three or four times as many as on the first of January, 1889."] [Footnote 4237: These figures are taken from the latest statistical reports.

Some of them are furnished by the chief or directors of special services.] [Footnote 4238: Taine could hardly have imagined how costly the modern democracy would, 100 years later, become.

How could he have imaged that the "Human Rights" should become the right to live comfortably and well at the expense of an ever more productive society.] [Footnote 4239: De Foville, pp.412, 416, 425, 455; Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, "Traite de la science des finances," I., p.717.] [Footnote 4240: "Statistiques financieres des communes en 1889":--3539 communes pay less than 15 common centimes; 2597 pay from 0 fr.

15 to 0 fr.