good luck to stop with
the common school. But I made no converts. Not one, in a community
overrun with educated idlers who were above following their fathers'
mechanical trades, yet could find no market for their book-knowledge."]

[Footnote 6397: Among the pupils who receive this primary instruction
the most intelligent, who study hardest, push on and pass an examination
by which they obtain the certificate that qualifies them for elementary
teaching. The consequences are as follows. Comparative table of annual
vacancies in the various services of the prefecture of the Seine and of
the candidates registered for these places. ("Debats," Sep. 16, 1890:)
Vacancies for teachers, 42; number of registered candidates, 1,847.
Vacancies for female teachers, 54; number of candidates, 7,139.--7,085
of these young women, educated and with certificates, and who cannot
get these places, must be content to marry some workman, or become
housemaids, and are tempted to become lorettes. (From the church of
Notre Dame de Lorette in Paris in the neighborhood of which many young,
pretty women of easy virtue were to be found. (SR.))]

[Footnote 6398: Taine wrote this when compulsory education in France
kept the children in school until their 13th year. Today in year 2000
they must stay until they are 16 years old but more often continue until
they are 19--23 years old. (SR.)]

[Footnote 6399: In certain cases, the school commission may grant
exemptions. But there art two or three parties in each commune, and the
father of a family must stand well with the dominant party to obtain
them.]

[Footnote 63100: After the second world war the world, helped by the
United Nations, have pushed obligatory education further and further,
and the number of dissatisfied youth have consequently increased and
increased. (SR.)]

[Footnote 63101: Law of March 28, 1882, and Oct. 30, 1886.]

[Footnote 63102: "Journal des Debats," Sep. 1, 1891. Report of the
Commission on Statistics: "In 1878-9 the number of congregationist
schools was 23,625 with 2,301,943 pupils."]

[Footnote 63103: Bureaux of the direction of public instruction, budget
of 1892.]

[Footnote 63104: "Exposition universelle" of 1889. "Rapport general," by
M. Alfred Picard, p. 367. At the same date, the number of pupils in
the public schools was 4,500,119.--"Journal des Debats," Sep. 12, 1891,
Report of the commission of statistics. "From 1878-79 to 1889-90, 5,063
public congregationist s