[33] Lefèvre-Pontalis. Jean de Witt.
[34] Mémoires, pp. 249, 251, 266, 267.
[35] Chabaud-Arnault: Revue Mar. et Col. 1885.
[36] The true significance of this change has often been misunderstood, and hence erroneous inferences as to the future have been drawn. It was not a case of the new displacing the old, but of the military element in a military organization asserting its necessary and inevitable control over all other functions.
[37] Chabaud-Arnault: Revue Mar. et Col. 1885.
[38] Campbell: Lives of the Admirals.
[39] Lapeyrouse-Bonfils: Hist. de la Marine Française.
[40] Campbell: Lives of the Admirals.
[41] Martin: History of France.
[42] Martin: History of France.