The French Revolution ; Chapters From the Author's History of England During the Eighteenth Century
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The multiplication of agricultural societies, the rapid rise of rent, the rapid increase of the revenue derived from the duties on articles of food, were indis- ' Mimoires de Sigur, i. 22-28, French trade,' wrote Arthur 152-160. Toung, 'has ahnost doubled since '■' Lavergne, Assemblies Pro- the Peace of 1763, but ours haa vinciales, p. 9. See, too, Taine, increased not near so much.'— Ancien Bigime, p. 402. ' The Tour in France, ch. xix. OH. I. TEIUMPH OF FRENCH IDEAS. 121 putable signs of prog...ress.' It was about this time that the use of the potato became general in France, and that Daubenton introduced the Spanish breed of sheep.^* Population was increasing with extraordinary rapidity, but the country was becoming also visibly richer. Calonne, who had been made Controller-General at the close of 1783, borrowed in time of peace almost as largely as Necker in time of war,' and the success of his loans gave an appearance of great prosperity. The luxury and expenditure of the Court continued unchecked,^ and the millennial dream was unbroken.
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