(TR.)] [Footnote 1434: Remonstrances of Malesherbes; Registers by Turgot and Necker to the king, (Laboulaye, "De l'administration francaise sous Louis XVI, Revue des cours litteraires, IV.

423, 759, 814.)] [Footnote 1435: Financiers have been known to tell citizens: "The ferme ( revenue-agency) ought to be able to grant you favors, you ought to be forced to come and ask for them .-- He who pays never knows what he owes.
The fermier is sovereign legislator in matters relating to his personal interest.

Every petition, in which the interests of a province, or those of the whole nation are concerned, is regarded as penal foolhardiness if it is signed by a person in his private capacity, and as illicit association if it be signed by several." Malesherbes, ibid..] [Footnote 1436: Mme.

Campan, "Memoires," I.p.

13 .-- Mme.