- The purchaser, besides, has to pay to the State
the "right of the golden marc" (a tax on the transfer of property); in
1762, this right amounted to nine hundred and forty livres for the
post of Councillor to the bailiwick of Troyes. D'Espr?menil,
councillor in the Paris Parliament, had paid fifty thousand livres for
his place, besides ten thousand livres taxation of the "golden marc."
[79] Emile Bos, "Les Avocats au conseil du Roi," p.340. Master
Peruot, procureur, was seated on the balcony of the Theatre Fran?ais
when Count Moreton Chabrillant arrives and wants his place. The
procureur resists and the count calls the guard, who leads him off to
prison. Master Peruot enters a complaint; there is a trial,
intervention of the friends of M. de Chabrillant before the garde des
sceaux, petitions of the nobles and resistance of the entire guild of
advocates and procureurs. M. de Chabrillant, senior, offers Peruot
forty thousand livres to withdraw his suit, which Peruot refuses to
do. Finally, the Count de Chabrillant is condemned, with six thousand
livres damages, (which are given to the poor and to prisoners), as
well as to the expense of printing two hundred impressions of the
verdict.
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