5 and 6,
1789.
[66] The noble families under the ancient regime may be characterized
as so many families of soldiers' children.
[67] "L'Ancien R?gime et la Revolution," by M. de Tocqueville, p.169.
My judgment, likewise based on the study of texts, and especially
manuscript texts, coincides here as elsewhere with that of M. de
Tocqueville. Biographies and local histories contain documents too
numerous to be cited.
[68] Sauzay, I., introduction, and Ludovic Sciout, " Histoire de la
Constitution Civile du Clerg?," I., introduction. (See in Sauzay,
biographical details and the grades of the principal ecclesiastical
dignitaries of the diocese Besan?on.) The cathedral chapter, and that
of the Madeleine, could be entered only through nobility or promotion;
it was requisite for a graduate to have a noble for a father, or a
doctor of divinity, and himself be a doctor of divinity or in canon
law. Analogous titles, although lower down, were requisite for
collegiate canons, and for chaplains or familiars.
[69] The Revolution," I., 233. - Cf. Emile Ollivier, "L'Eglise et
l'Etat au Concile du Vatican," I., 134, II., 511.
[70] Morellet, "M?moires," I.
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