Concile du Vatican," I., 134, II., 511.]

[Footnote 4170: Morellet, "Memoires," I., 8, 31. The Sorbonne, founded
by Robert Sorbon, confessor to St. Louis, was an association resembling
one of the Oxford or Cambridge colleges, that is to say, a corporation
possessing a building, revenues, rules, regulations and boarders;
its object was to afford instruction in the theological sciences;
its titular members, numbering about a hundred, were mostly bishops,
vicars-general, canons, cures in Paris and in the principal towns. Men
of distinction were prepared in it at the expense of the Church.--The
examinations for the doctorate were the tentative, the mineure, the
Sorbonique and the majeure. A talent for discussion and argument was
particularly developed.--Cf. Ernest Renan, "Souvenirs d'Enfance et de
Jeunesse," p.279, (on St. Sulpice and the study of Theology).]

[Footnote 4171: Cf. the files of the clergy in the States-General, and
the reports of ecclesiastics in the provincial assemblies.]

[Footnote 4172: "The Revolution," p.72. (Ed. Lafont I, p 223 etc.)]

[Footnote 4173: In some dioceses, notably that of Besancon, the rural
parishes were served by distinguished men. (Sauzay, I., 16.) "It was not
surprising to encounter a man of European reputation, like Bergier, so
long cure of Flangebouche; an astronomer of great merit, like M. Mongin,
cure 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 Bonetage, 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."]

[Footnote 4174: De Tocqueville, "L'Ancien Regime," 134, 137.]

[Footnote 4175: Terms signifying certain minor courts of law.]

[Footnote 4176: Albert Babeau, "La Ville sous l'Ancien Regime," p.
26.--(Advertisements in the "Journal de Troyes," 1784, 1789.) "For sale,
the place of councillor in the Salt-department at Sezannes. Income from
ei