For the similar right in the kingdom of France, see Pasquier, _Recherches de la France_, l.
xii.p.37.Louis XIV.

did not exercise this right after his conquest of the Franche Comte, perhaps because the Hotel des Invalides, to which the Church was so large a contributor, met all his wants.] [Footnote 39: '_Quand on veut du poisson, il se faut mouiller_;' referring probably to the method of taking trout practised in the Ormont valley, the habitat of the purest form of the patois.

A man wades in the Grand' Eau, with a torch in one hand to draw the fish to the top, and a sword in the other to kill them when they arrive there; a second man wading behind with a bag, to pick up the pieces.] [Footnote 40: 'Swift-foot Almond, and land-louping Braan.'] [Footnote 41: The sentry-box is omitted in the accompanying illustration.] [Footnote 42: Believed to be derived from _Collis Dianae_.

Dunod found that _Chaudonne_ was an early form of the name, and so preferred _Collis Dominarum_, with reference to the house of nuns placed there.] [Footnote 43: Schmidt was not without the support of example in the indulgence of his warlike tastes.

Thirty-eight years before, the religious took so active a part in the defence of Dole against Louis XIII., that the Capuchin Father d'Iche had the direction of the artillery; and when an officer of the enemy had seized the Brother Claude by the cowl, the Father Barnabas made the officer loose his hold by slaying him with a demi-pique.