nes; about the same date over 200 Italian priests are banished to
Corsica).--V., 181. (July 12, 1811, the bishops of Troyes, Tournay and
Ghent are sent to (the fortress-prison of) Vincennes.)--V., 286. (236
pupils in the Ghent seminary are enrolled in an artillery brigade
and sent off to Wesel, where about fifty of them die in the
hospital.)--"Souvenirs", by PASQUIER (Etienne-Dennis, duc) Librarie
Plon, Paris 1893. (Numbers of Belgian priests confined in the castles of
Ham, Bouillon and Pierre-Chatel were set free after the Restoration.)]

[Footnote 31139: Decree of November 15, 1811, art. 28, 29, and 30.
(Owing to M. de Fontanes, the small seminaries were not all closed, many
of them, 41, still existing in 1815.)]

[Footnote 31140: Collection of laws and decrees, passim, after 1802.]

[Footnote 31141: Documents furnished by M. Alexis Chevalier, former
director of public charities. The total amount of legacies and bequests
is as follows: 1st Asylums and hospitals, from January 1, 1800, to
December 31, 1845, 72,593,360 francs; from January 1st, 1846, to
December 31, 1855, 37,107,812; from January 1st, 1856, to December 31,
1877, 121,197,774. in all, 230,898,346 francs.--2d. Charity bureaux.
From January 1st, 1800, to December 31, 1845, 49,911,090; from January
1st, 1846, to December 31, 1873, 115,629,925; from January 1st 1874, to
December 31, 1877, 19,261,065. In all, 184,802,080 francs.--Sum total,
415,701,026 francs.]

[Footnote 31142: According to the statements of M. de Watteville and M.
de Gasparin.]

[Footnote 31143: Report by Fourcroy, annexed to the exposition of the
empire and presented to the Corps Legislatif, March 5, 1806.]

[Footnote 31144: Coup d'oeil general sur l'education et l'instruction
publique en France," by Basset, censor of studies at Charlemagne college
(1816),--p. 21.]

[Footnote 31145: "Statistique de l'enseignement primaire," II., CCIV.
(From 1786 to 1789, 47 out of 100 married men and 26 married women out
of a hundred signed their marriage contract. From 1816 to 1820, the
figures show 54 husbands and 34 wives.)--Morris Birbeck, "Notes of a
Journey through France in July, August and September 1814." p.3 (London,
1815). "I am told that all the children of the laboring classes learn to
read, and are generally instructed by their parents."]

[Footnote 31146: Madame de Remusat, I., 243. (Journey in the north of
France and in Belgium with the First Consul, 1803.) "On journeys of this
kind