5253 ([return])
[ "Procès-verbaux de l'ass. prov. de Berry, I. 85, II. 91. —de l'Orléanais, p. 225." "Arbitrariness, injustice, inequality, are inseparable from the taille when any change of collector takes place.">[
5254 ([return])
[ "Archives Nationales," H. 615. Letter of M. de Lagourda, a noble from Bretagne, to M. Necker, dated December 4, 1780: "You are always taxing the useful and necessary people who decrease in numbers all the time: these are the workers of the land. The countryside has become deserted and no one will any longer plow the land. I testify to God and to you, Sir, that we have lost more than a third of our budding wheat of the last harvest because we did not have the necessary man-power do to the work.">[
5255 ([return])
[ Ibid. 1149. (letter of M. de Reverseau, March 16, 1781); H, 200 (letter of M. Amelot, Nov. 2, 1784).]
5256 ([return])
[ "Procès-verbaux de l'ass. prov. de la généralite de Rouen," p.91.]
5257 ([return])
[ Hippeau, VI. 22 (1788).]