Mongin, cur? of la Grand'Combe des Bois, whose works occupy an
honorable place in Lalande's bibliography, all passing their lives in
the midst of peasants. At Rochejean, a priest of great intelligence
and fine feeling, M. Boillon, a distinguished naturalist, had
converted his house into a museum of natural history as well as into
an excellent school. . . . It was not rare to find priests
belonging to the highest social circles, like MM. de Trevillers, of
Trevillers, Balard de Bonnevaux of Bon?tage, de Mesmay of Mesmay, du
Bouvot, at Osselle, cheerfully burying themselves in the depths of the
country, some on their family estates, and, not content to share their
income with their poor parishioners, but on dying, leaving them a
large part of their fortunes.
[74] De Tocqueville, "L'Ancien Regime," 134, 137.
[75] Terms signifying certain minor courts of law.
[76] Albert Babeau, "La Ville sous l'Ancien R?gime," p. 26. -
(Advertisements in the "Journal de Troyes," 1784, 1789.) "For sale,
the place of councillor in the Salt-department at S?zannes. Income
from eight to nine hundred livres. Price ten thousand livres." - "A
person desires to purchase in this town (Troyes) an office in the
Magistracy or Finances, at from twenty-five thousand to sixty thousand
livres; cash paid down if required.
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