reparatory study five years in the seminary, 800 francs of pay with the
risk of losing it any day, poor extras, a life-servitude, no retiring
pension, etc.--"Le Grand Peril de L'Eglise en France," by Abbe Bougaud
(4th ed., 1879), pp 2-23.--"Lettre Circulaire" (No. 53) of Mgr.
Thiebaut, archbishop of Rouen, 1890, p.618.]

[Footnote 5264: There is a gradual suppression of the subvention in 1877
and 1853 and a final one in 1885.]

[Footnote 5265: Abbe Bougaud, Ibid., p. 118, etc.--The lower seminary
contains about 200 or 250 pupils. Scarcely one of these pays full board.
They pay on the average from 100 to 200 frs. per head, while their
maintenance costs 400 francs.--The instructors who are priests get 600
francs a year. Those who are not priests get 300 francs, which adds
12,000 francs to the expenses and brings the total deficit up to 42,000
or 52,000 francs.]

[Footnote 5266: Somewhat like television where he who controls this
media controls the minds of the people. (SR.)]

[Footnote 5267: Circular letter (No. 53) of M. Leon, archbishop of Rouen
(1890), p. 618 and following pages.]

[Footnote 5268: Had Hitler and Lenin read this, which is likely, then
they would have fashioned their youth party programmes accordingly!! The
Catholic faith in France today (in 1999) is nearly extinguished with
only 14 seminaries and only a few hundred young men yearly entering
these.(SR.)]

[Footnote 5269: Abbe Bougaud, ibid., p. 135. (Opinion of the archbishop
of Aix, Ibid., p. 38.) "I know a lower seminary in which a class en
quatrieme (8th grade US.) of 44 pupils furnished only 4 priests, 40
having dropped out on the way.... I have been informed that a large
college in Paris, conducted by priests and containing 400 pupils, turned
out in ten years but one of an ecclesiastical calling."--"Moniteur,"
March, 14, 1865. (Speech in the Senate by Cardinal Bonnechose.) "With
us, discipline begins at an early age, first in the lower seminary and
then in the upper seminary.... Other nations envy us our seminaries.
They have not succeeded in establishing any like them. They cannot
keep pupils so long; their pupils enter their seminaries only as day
scholars."]

[Footnote 5270: Old-fashioned name for the 11th grade in a French high
school. (SR.)]

[Footnote 5271: "Histoire de M. Emery," by Abbe Elie Meric, I., 15,
17. "From 1786 onwards, plays written by the 'les philosophes,' by the
'Robertuis' and the Laon community; they were excluded f