[12] La ceinture de la reine. It consisted of three pence (deniers) on each hogs-head of wine imported into the city, and was levied every three years in the capital.—ARNETH, ii, p. 179.
[13] The title "ceinture de la reine" had been given to it because in the old times queens and all other ladies had carried their purses at their girdles.
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[1] The title by which the count was usually known: that of the countess was madame.
[2] St. Simon, 1709, ch. v., and 1715, ch. i, vols. vii. and xiii., ed. 1829.
[3] Ibid., 1700, ch xxx., vol. ii., p. 469.
[4] Arneth, ii, p. 206.
[5] Madame de Campan, ch. iv.
[6] Madame de Campan, ch. v., p. 106.
[7] Id., p. 101.