75.
Many of these families existed in 1789, more of them than at the
present time, especially in Gascony, Languedoc, Auvergne, Dauphiny,
Franch-Comt?, Alsace and Normandy. - Ibid., "L'Organization du
Travail," pp.499, 503, 508. (Effects of the "Code Civile" on the
transmission of a manufactory and a business establishment in France,
and on cultivation in Savoy; the number of suits in France produced by
the system of forced partition of property.)
[85] F. Leplay, "L'Organization de la Famille," p.212. (History of
the M?longa family from 1856 to 1869 by M. Cheysson.) Also p.269.
(On the difficulty of partitions among ascendants, by M. Claudio
Jannet.)
[86] R?tif de la Bretonne, "Vie de mon Pere," (paternal authority in a
peasant family in Burgundy). The reader, on this point, may test the
souvenirs of his grand-parents. With reference to the bourgeoisie I
have cited the family of Beaumarchais. Concerning the nobles, see the
admirable letter by Buffon June 22, 1787, (correspondence of Buffon,
two vols., published by M. Nadaud de Buffon), telling his son how he
ought to act on account of his wife's behavior.
[87] Moniteur, XIX., 669.
[88] Dauban, " Paris en 1794," p.
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