Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1913 — The Ancient Regime. [ARTICLE]

The Ancient Regime.

In the France of the eighteenth century the privileged classes counted shout 170,000 persons. Of thsas ldfi, •00 were nobles, 120,000 w ere clergy, or shout 80,000 noble findilea, Mr 000 monks in 2,500 monasteries. tTjMt nuns In 1,500 convents, and tMM curates, vicars, Me. The pesgln (about lli.OOOOdb) possessed sheet one-third of tne lend, out of wMoh earns tU the expense of the gave—meal, the property of the privileged •lass paying no taxation.