'"
[48] The following descriptions and appreciations are the fruit of
extensive investigation, scarcely one tenth of the facts and texts
that have been of service being cited. I must refer the reader,
accordingly, to the series of printed and written documents of which I
have made mention in this and the three preceding volumes.
[49] "The Ancient Regime," book II., ch 2, ยง IV.
[50] Ibid., book IV., chs. I., II., III.
[51] Lacretelle, "Histoire de France au 18eme Siecle," V., 2. - -"
The Ancient Regime," pp. 163, 300.
[52] Morellet, "M?moires," I., 166. (Letter by R?derer to Beccaria's
daughter, May 20, 1797).
[53] Beccaria (Cesare Bonesana, marquis de) (Milan 1738 - id. 1794).
Italian jurist, whose "Trait? des d?lits et des peines (1764)
contributed to the reforms and the softening of of European penal law.
(SR)
[54] Mallet-Dupan, "M?moires," II., 493. "While the Duke of Orleans
was undergoing his examination he read a newspaper." - Ibid., 497.
"Nobody died with more firmness, spirit and dignity than the Duke of
Orleans. He again became a royal prince. On being asked in the
revolutionary tribunal whether he had any defense to make, he replied,
'Rather die to-day than to-morrow: deliberate about it.
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