Excerpt from High Life in France Under the Republic: Social and Satirical Sketches in Paris and the Provinces The First Napoleon created 9 Princes, 32 Dukes, 388 Counts, and Barons. The government of the Restoration (louis XVIII. And Charles granted the necessary patents for 70 Dukes, 70 Marquises, 63 Counts, 62 Viscounts, and 215 Baions, besides issuing 785 letters of Simple nobility. Under Louis Philippe, France was blessed with 3 more Dukes, 19 Counts, 17 Viscounts, and 59 Barons; and during the Second Empire the aristocratic element was still further reinforced by the creation of 12 Dukes, 19 Counts or Viscounts, and 21 Barons. In addition, 368 persons were authorised to assume the genitive prefix dc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.