[311] Ibid., p. 155.
[312] Ibid., p. 74.
[313] Annuaire Historique Universel, 1831, Appendice, Documents Historiques, p. 155.
[314] Ibid., 1849, Appendice, Documents Historiques, p. 134.
[315] British and Foreign State Papers, 1847-48, Vol. XXXVI. p. 890.
[316] Art. XXIV. Statuto Fondamentale del Regno: Annuario Diplomatico del Regno d’Italia.
[317] History, Book III. c. 80. See, ante, Vol. II. p. 339.
[318] Hallam says of this scene, which occurred after the murder of Smerdis the Magian, that it is “conceived in the spirit of Corneille.”—Middle Ages (London, 1853), Vol. II. p. 344, note, Ch. VIII. Part 2.
[319] Discours de la Servitude Volontaire: Œuvres, ed. Feugère, (Paris, 1846,) pp. 26, 27.
[320] Ancient Law: its Connection with the Early History of Society, and its Relation to Modern Ideas, by Henry Sumner Maine, (London, 1861,) pp. 92-96. In harmony with this English writer is M. Émile de Girardin, the French journalist and publicist, who, in a work which appeared in 1872, says, “A single line which follows resumes all the Revolution of 1789”; and he then quotes in capitals, “Frenchmen are equal before the law.”