er for Feb.15, 1892.) Decree
of April 8, 1814.]

[Footnote 6303: Ordinance of April 17, 1815 (to suppress the
university pay and separate the sole University into seventeen regional
universities.) This ordinance, dating from the last days of the first
Restoration, is repealed the first days of the second Restoration, Aug.
15, 1815.]

[Footnote 6304: "The Modern Regime," p.316. (Laff. II 581-582.)]

[Footnote 6305: Basset, censor of studies in the Charlemagne college,
"Coup d'oeil general sur l'Education et l'Instruction publique en France"
(1816), p. 21. (State of the University in 1815.)]

[Footnote 6306: Today, in year 2000, the educational machinery in France
employs more than 1 million teachers and, as all children are in school
from the age of 3 to at least 16 years of age, there are more than 12
million children and students under the tutelage of the state. (SR.)]

[Footnote 6307: Political party terms.]

[Footnote 6308: Ordinance of Feb.21, 1821, article 13, and Report by M.
de Corbieres: "The youth clamour for a religious and moral direction..
.. The religious direction belongs by right to the highest pastors:
it is proper to ask from them for these establishments (the university
colleges) for constant supervision and to legally call on them to
suggest all measures that they may deem necessary."]

[Footnote 6309: Liard, "L'Enseignement superieur," 840 (Speech by
Benjamin Constant in the Chamber of Deputes, May 18th, 1827).]

[Footnote 6310: Ordinances of Novem. 21, 1822, article I, and Feb. 2,
1823, article II.]

[Footnote 6311: Ordinances of Sep. 6, 1822, and of Feb. 21st, 1821,
title VI, with report by M. de Corbieres.]

[Footnote 6312: Liard, ibid., p. 840. (Circular addressed to the rectors
by Monseigneur Freyssinous immediately after his installation:)
"In summoning a man of sacerdotal character to the head of public
instruction, His Majesty has made all France well aware of his great
desire to have the youth of his kingdom brought up in monarchical and
religious sentiments.... Whoever has the misfortune to live without
religion, or not to be devoted to the reigning family, ought to be
sensible of what he lacks in becoming a worthy instructor of youth. He
is to be pitied and is even culpable."--"Ambroise Rendu," by Eug. Rendu,
p. III (circular to rectors in 1817). "Make it known to the MM. the
bishops and to all ecclesiastics that, in the work of education, you are
simply auxiliaries, and that t