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    Rheims and M armoutier , as asserted by the historians of Touraine . Plessis-les-Tours is also memorable , as having been , on the 30 th of April , 1589 , the place where the reconciliation and alliance took place between Henry III . of France and the King of Navarre , afterwards Henry IV . Of the castle itself nothing remains but a single tower , converted into a manufactory for

    casting shot , the horrible dungeons partly filled up , and some fragments of walls embodied into a residence for its owner . The facility with which land was to be acquired in France by the purchase of national property , in small allotments , to be paid for by distant and easy instalments , placed that of Plessis in the hands of a numerous proprietary . It was , like all the lands of France at the period of the Revolution , delivered from the galling

    burdens of tithes , and detestable feudal oppressions ; and thus everywhere was originated a very numerous body of small landholders , who might more properly be called freeholders , than most of those known by that name in this country . From being , for the most part , a sort of appendage to another man ' s property , and bound to believe in all things as he was told , and to do suit and service ' as he was bid , the industrious occupier of land in France was

    enabled to become the legal owner of that species of property which the church , the nobles , and the king had for ages usurped . The present state of the laws of succession , the effects of which the men of the restoration looked upon with horror , but which Louis XVIII . and Charles X ., in the plenitude of their power , though supported by all the bayonets of all the despots of Europe , dared do nothing more than grumble at , has still further multiplied the number of small landowners ; and the purchase of land

    is become so favourite a mode of investing even small sums of money all over France , that it is now understood they are to be counted , not by hundreds or by thousands , but by millions * . This division of landed property is condemned by political economists in general , particularly by those of the Arthur Young school , whose predictions in regard to its effects in France are far from having raised his memory in the estimation of those who are really and intimately acquainted with the principles and practical results of the laws of succession in France . It is also , as matter

    of course , loudly exclaimed against by the aristocracy in all countries , who would much rather saddle their younger children on the public purse , than provide honestly for them out of their own property , according to the dictates of natural justice , morality , and religion .

    * The same strong predilection for landed property exists in Baden and other of the free states of Gennany , and similar effects appear to result from it .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1832, page 680, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1822/page/32/