Le 7noycn ordre, we should say no w le tiers état

1. 6. largent ayant augmenté àfc, there being half as much money again in circulation. The resuit of this would of course be that priées would rise, and people with fixed incomes would sufifer.

1. 10. Un électeur, i.e. a German elector, one of the collège of electors under the empire.

1. ri. V investiture, the form of feudal investiture with the électoral dignity and estâtes was still kept up in Germany when Voltaire wrote.

1. 22. attendu le surhaussement des espèces, considering the increased value of money.