2165 ([return])
[ De Luynes, XV. 455, and XVI. 219 (1757). "The Marshal de Belle-Isle contracted an indebtedness amounting to 1,200,000 livres, one-quarter of it for building great piles of houses for his own pleasure and the rest in the king's service. The king, to indemnify him, gives him 400,000 livres on the salt revenue, and 80,000 livres income on the company privileged to refine the precious metals.">[
2166 ([return])
[ Report of fixed incomes and expenditures, May 1st, 1789, p. 633.—These figures, it must be noted, must be doubled to have their actual equivalent.]
2167 ([return])
[ Mme. de Genlis, "Dict. des Etiquettes," I. 349.]
2168 ([return])
[ Barbier, "Journal," III, 211 (December, 1750).]
2169 ([return])
[ Aubertin, "L'Esprit public au dix-huitième siècle," 255.]