le Duc d'Orleans came to Villers-Cotterets, he has revived the captainry; there are more than sixty places for sale on account of these princely annoyances.] [Footnote 1355: The old peasants with whom I once have talked still had a clear memory of these annoyances and damages .-- They recounted how, in the country around Clermont, the gamekeepers of Prince de Conde in the springtime took litters of wolves and raised them in the dry moats of the chateau.

They were freed in the beginning of the winter, and the wolf hunting team would then hunt them later.

But they ate the sheep, and, here and there, a child.] [Footnote 1356: The estates of the king encompassed in forest one million acres, not counting forests in the appanages set aside for his eldest son or for factories or salt works.] [Footnote 1357: De Montlosier, "Memoires," I.175.].