ght 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."]

[Footnote 4177: De Tocqueville, "L'Ancien Regime," p.356. The municipal
body of Angers comprised, among other members, two deputies of the
presidial, two of the Forest and Streams department, two of the
Election, two of the Salt-department, two of the Customs, two of the
Mint, two Council judges. The system of the ancient regime, universally,
is the grouping together of all individuals in one body with a
representative of all these bodies, especially those of the notables.
The municipal body of Angers, consequently, comprises two deputies of
the society of lawyers and procureurs, two of the notarial body, one
of the University, one of the Chapter, a Syndic of the clerks, etc.--At
Troyes (Albert Babeau," Histoire de Troyes Pendant la Revolution,"
p.23.) Among the notables of the municipality may be found one member of
the clergy, two nobles, one officer of the bailiwick, one officer of the
other jurisdictions, one physician, one or two bourgeois, one lawyer,
one notary or procureur, four merchants and two members of the trade
guild.]

[Footnote 4178: Albert Babeau, "La Ville," p.26. (Cf. note on preceding
page.) The Collector's Office at Reteil, in 1746, is sold at one hundred
and fifty thousand livres; it brings in from eleven thousand to fourteen
thousand livres.--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'Espremenil, councillor in the
Paris Parliament, had paid fifty thousand livres for his place, besides
ten thousand livres taxation of the "golden marc."]

[Footnote 4179: Emile Bos, "Les Avocats au conseil du Roi," p.340.
Master Peruot, procureur, was seated on the balcony of the Theatre
Francais 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