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[ Beugnot, "Mémoires," II., 317. "To be dressed, taxed, and ordered to take up arms, like most folks, seemed a punishment as soon as one had found a privilege within reach," such, for example, as the title of "déchireur de bateaux" (one who condemns unseaworthy craft and profits by it), or inspector of fresh butter (using his fingers in tasting it), or tide-waiter and inspector of salt fish. These titles raised a man above the common level, and there were over twenty thousand of them.]
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[ See "The Ancient Régime," p. 129. (Laff. I. p. 99)]
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[ Madame de Rémusat, "Mémoires," III., 316, 317.]
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[ De Beausset, "Intérieur du palais de Napoléon" I., p. 9 et seq.. For the year 1805 the total expense is 2,338,167 francs; for the year 1806 it reaches 2,770,861 francs, because funds were assigned "for the annual augmentation of plate, 1,000 silver plates and other objects."—"Napoleon knew, every New Year's day, what he expended (for his household) and nobody ever dared overpass the credits he allowed.">[
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[ "The Ancient Régime," pp. 350-357.(Laff. I. 259-266)]