[3].  Volney, “Tableau du climat et du sol des Etats-Unis d’Amérique.”  The leading trait of the French Colonist when compared with the colonists of other nations, is, according to this writer, the craving for neighbors and conversation

[4].  Mme. de Caylus, “Souvenirs,” p. 108.

[5].  St. Simon, 461.

[6].  Duc de Lévis, p. 321.

[7].  Mme. de Genlis, “Souvenirs de Félicie,” p. 160. — It is important, however, to call attention to the old-fashioned royal attitude under Louis XV and even Louis XVI.  “Although I was advised,” says Alfieri, “that the king never addressed ordinary strangers, I could not digest the Olympian-Jupiter look with which Louis XV measured the person presented to him, from head to foot, with such an impassible air; if a fly should be introduced to a giant, the giant, after looking at him, would smile, or perhaps remark. — ’What a little mite!’ In any event, if he said nothing, his face would express it for him.”  Alfieri, Mémoires,” I.138, 1768. (Alfieri, Vittorio, born in Asti in 1749 — † Florence 1803.  Italian poet and playwright. (Sr.) - See in Mme. d’Oberkirk’s “Mémoires.” (II. 349), the lesson administered by Mme. Royale, aged seven and a half years, to a lady introduced to her.

[8].  Champfort, 26, 55; Bachaumont, I. 136 (Sept 7,1762).  One month after the Parliament had passed a law against the Jesuits, little Jesuits in wax appeared, with a snail for a base.  “By means of a thread the Jesuit was made to pop in and out from the shell.  It is all the rage — here is no house without its Jesuit.”

[9].  On the other hand, the song on the battle of Rosbach is charming.

[10].  “Correspondance secrète,” by Métra, Imbert, etc., V. 277 (Nov. 17, 1777). — Voltaire, “Princesse de Babylone.”

[11].  Baron de Bezenval, “Mémoires,” II. 206.  An anecdote related by the Duke.

[12].  Archives nationales, a report by M. Texier (1780).  A report by M. Mesnard de Chousy (01, 738).

[13].  “Marie Antoinette,” by d’Arneth and Geffroy, I. 277 (February 29. 1772).

[14].  De Luynes, XVII. 37 (August, 1758). — D’Argenson, February 11, 1753.

[15].  Archives nationales, 01, 738.  Various sums of interest are paid:  12,969 francs to the baker, 39,631 francs to the wine merchant, and 173,899 francs to the purveyor.

[16].  Marquis de Mirabeau, “Traité de Population,” 60. — “Le Gouvemement de Normandie,” by Hippeau, II. 204 (Sept. 30, 1780).

[17].  Mme. de Larochejacquelein, “Mémoires,” p. 30. — Mme. d’Oberkirk, II. 66.

[18].  D’Argenson, January 26, 1753.

[19].  George Sand, “Histoire de ma vie,” I.78.

[20].  “Marie Antoinette,” by d’Arneth and Geffroy, I. 61 (March 18, 1777).

21.  D’Argenson, January 26, 1753.