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CHAPTER I
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1.	1.	Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century, p. 71. Cf. also Gardner, Dukes and Poets of Ferrara, p. 413.
2.	1.	J. W. Stubbs, History of the University of Dublin (1889), p. 354.
	2.	S. Lee, The French Renaissance in England, pp. 42, 43.
	3.	The first instance of the use of the term recorded in the Oxford Dictionary is for the year 1670.
4.	1.	Nugent, Grand Tour, i, Preface, p. xi.
CHAPTER II
6.	1.	See Chapters X-XIV for details.
10.	1.	In the middle of the century, Nugent, Grand Tour, iv, 8, estimates the population of France at 20,000,000. For 1789, Levasseur estimates the population at 26,000,000. The census of 1801 makes it 26,930,756.
	2.	"L'ancienne France était si hérissée d'exceptions, de privilèges, de contrastes, que les assertions absolues … appellent à chaque instant des explications, des atténuations ou des correctifs, suivant les circonstances de temps et de lieux." Cardinal Mathieu, L'Ancien Régime en Lorraine et Barrois, p. xiii.
11.	1.	The place that the king held in the everyday thought of the people is well illustrated in the following contemporary comment: "The most inconsiderable circumstance which relates to the monarch is of importance: Whether he eat much or little at dinner; the coat he wears, the horse on which he rides, all afford matter of conversation in the various societies of Paris, and are the most agreeable subjects of epistolary correspondence with their friends in the provinces." Moore, View of Society and Manners in France, etc., p. 20.
	2.	"Everything in this kingdom is arranged for the accommodation of the rich and the powerful … little or no regard is paid to the comfort of citizens of an inferior station." Moore, View of Society and Manners in France, etc., p. 16.
12.	1.	Taine, The Ancient Regime, I, 17.
	2.	Ibid., I, 14.
13.	1.	"It is the taste in France, for all that can possibly afford it (and of course for many that cannot) to live in the capital. This is a most devoted friend to luxury, which necessarily begets poverty — and then dependence — it is therefore encouraged by the court." Letters concerning the Present State of the French Nation (1769), p. 145.

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