and of Fourcroy.)--"Statistique
elementaire de la France," by Peuchet (according to a statement
published by the minister of the interior, year IX), p.
260.--"Statistiques des prefets," Aube, by Aubray, p.23; Aisne, by
Dauchet, p.87; Lot-et-Garonne, by Pieyre, p. 45: "It is during the
Revolution that the number of foundlings increased to this extraordinary
extent by the too easy admission in the asylums of girls who had become
mothers, along with their infants; through the passing sojourn of
soldiers in their houses; through the subversion of every principle
of religion and morality."--Gers, by Balguerie: "Many defenders of the
country became fathers before their departure.... The soldiers, on their
return, maintained the habits of their conquests.... Many of the girls,
besides, for lack of a husband took a lover."--Moselle, by Coichen,
p.91: "Morals are more lax. In 1789, at Metz, there are 524 illegitimate
births; in the year IX, 646; in 1789, 70 prostitutes; in the year IX,
260. There is the same increase of kept women."--Peuchet, "Essai d'une
statistique generale de la France," year IX, p.28. "The number of
illegitimate births, from one forty-seventh in 1780, increased to nearly
one eleventh of the total births, according to the comparative estimates
of M. Necker and M. Mourgue."]

[Footnote 3149: Rocquam, ibid., p. 93. (Report of Barbe-Marbois.)]

[Footnote 3150: "The Revolution," III., p.416 (note), P.471 (note).
(Laff. II. pp. 307-308, p 348.)]

[Footnote 3151: "Statistiques des prefets," Deux-Sevres, by Dupin, p.
174: "Venereal diseases which thanks to good habits. were still unknown
in the country in 1789, are now spread throughout the Bocage and in all
places where the troops have sojourned."--"Dr. Delahay, at Parthenay
observes that the number of maniacs increased fright fully in the
Reign of Terror." (It should be remembered that the terminal stage of
untreated syphilis is madness and death. SR.)]

[Footnote 3152: Decrees of March 19, 1793, and Messidor 23, year
II.--Decrees of Brumaire 2, year IV, and Vendemiaire 16 year V.]

[Footnote 3153: "Statistiques des prefets," Rhone, by Verminac, year X.
Income of the Lyons Asylums in 1789,1.510,827 francs; to-day, 459,371
francs.--Indre, by Dalphonse, year XII. The principal asylum of
Issoudun, founded in the twelfth century, had 27,939 francs revenue, on
which it loses 16,232. Another asylum, that of the Incurables, loses, on
an income of 12,062 francs, 745