for general grammar, 5; for history, 10; for legislation, 8: for
belles-lettres, 6.--Rocquam, ibid., P.29. (Reports of Francais de
Nantes, on the departments of the South-east.) "There, as elsewhere, the
courses on general grammar, on belles-lettres, history and legislation,
are unfrequented. Those on mathematics, chemistry, Latin and drawing
are better attended, because these sciences open up lucrative
careers.--Ibid., p. 108. (Report by Barbe-Marboi on the Brittany
departments.)]

[Footnote 3171: "Statistiques des prefets," Meurthe, by Marquis, year
XIII, p.120. "In the communal schools of the rural districts, the
fee was so small that the poorest families could contribute to the
(teacher's) salary. Assessments on the communal property, besides,
helped almost everywhere in providing the teacher with a satisfactory
salary, so that these functions were sought after and commonly well
fulfilled.. .. Most of the villages had Sisters of Saint-Vincent de
Paul for instructors, or others well known under the name of
Vatelottes."--"The partition of communal property, and the sale of that
assigned to old endowments, had deprived the communes of resources which
afforded a fair compensation to schoolmasters and schoolmistresses. The
product of the additional centimes scarcely sufficed for administrative
expenses.--Thus, there is but little else now than people without means,
who take poorly compensated places; again, they neglect their,
schools just as soon as they see an opportunity to earn something
elsewhere."--Archives nationales, No. 1004, cartons 3044 and 3145.
(Report of the councillors of state on mission in the year IX.--First
military division, Report of Lacuee.) Aisne: "There is now no primary
school according to legal institution."--The situation is the same in
Oise, also in Seine for the districts of Sceaux and Saint Denis.]

[Footnote 3172: Albert Duruy, 178. (Report drawn up in the bureaux of
the ministry of the interior, year VIII.) "A detestable selection of
those called instructors; almost everywhere, they are men without morals
or education, who owe their nomination solely to a pretended civism,
consisting of nothing but an insensibility to morality and propriety.
... They affect an insolent contempt for the (old) religious
opinions."--Ibid., p.497. (Proces-verbaux des conseils-generaux.)
On primary school-teachers, Herault: "Most are blockheads and
vagabonds."--Pas-de-Calais:" Most are blockheads or ignoramu