Note 337 — Chapter VI · FRANCE.
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Levasseur, France avec ses Colonies (1875), p. 842. According to Anderson, Chron. Ded., Vol. III. p. xliii, some said twenty, others seventeen. But Mr. Kitchin cites Vauban to show that there had been a decline in population from fifteen to thirteen millions between the beginning of the war of Succession and the end of it (1702, 1713).—History of France, vol. iii. p. 342. Cf. Fox Bourne’s Life of Locke, i. p. 350; Vauban’s Dîme Royale, pp. 162–3.