7 francs.--Eure, by Masson Saint-Amand,
year XIII: "14 asylums and 3 small charity establishments in the
department, with about 100,000 francs income in 1789, have lost at least
60,000 francs of it.--Vosges, by Desgouttes, year X: "10 asylums in
the department. Most of these have been stripped of nearly the whole of
their property and capital on account of the law of Messidor 23, year
II; on the suspension of the execution of this law, the property had
been sold and the capital returned.--Cher, by Lucay: "15 asylums before
the revolution; they remain almost wholly without resources through the
loss of their possessions.--Lozere, by Jerphaniou, year X: "The property
belonging to the asylums, either in real estate or state securities, has
passed into other hands."--Doubs, analysis by Ferrieres: "Situation of
the asylums much inferior to that of 1789, because they could not have
property restored to them in proportion to the value of that which had
been alienated. The asylum of Pontarlier lost one-half of its revenue
through reimbursements in paper-money. All the property of the Ornans
asylum has been sold," etc.--Rocquain, p. 187. (Report by Fourcroy.)
Asylums of Orne: their revenue, instead of 123,189 francs, is no more
than 68,239.--Asylums of Calvados: they have lost 173,648 francs of
income, there remains of this only 85,955 francs.--Passim, heart-rending
details on the destitution of the asylums and their inmates, children,
the sick and the infirm.--The figures by which I have tried to show the
disproportion between requirements and resources are a minimum.]

[Footnote 3154: Abbe Allain, "l'Instruction primaire en France avant
la Revolution," and Albert Duruy, "l'Instruction publique et la
Revolution," passim.]

[Footnote 3155: "Statistique de l'enseignement primaire" (1880),II.,
CCIV. The proportion of instructed and uninstructed people has been
ascertained in 79 departments, and at various periods, from 1680 down
to the year 1876, according to the signatures on 1,699,985
marriage-records.--In the "Dictionnaire de pedagogie et d'instruction
primaire," published by M. Buisson, M. Maggiolo, director of these vast
statistics, has given the proportion of literate and illiterate people
for the different departments; now, from department to department, the
figures furnished by the signatures on marriage records correspond with
sufficient exactness to the number of schools, verified moreover by
pastoral visits and by othe