(Undoubtedly Lenin, during his years in Paris, had read Taine's footnote and asked the national library for a copy of this rapport.

SR.)] [Footnote 2191: Fenet, "Travaux du Code civil," 105 (Rapports by Cambaceres, August 9, 1793 and September 9, 1794) .-- Decrees of September 20, 1793 and Floreal 4, year II (On divorce) .-- Cf.

"Institutions," by Saint-Just (Buchez et Roux, XXXV, 302).

"A man and woman who love each other are married; if they have no children they may keep their relationship secret."] [Footnote 2192: This article of the Jacobin program, like the others, has its practical result.--"At Paris, in the twenty-seven months after the promulgation of the law of September, 1792, the courts granted five thousand nine hundred and ninety-four divorces, and in year VI, the number of divorces exceeded the marriages." (Glasson, le Mariage civil et le Divorce, 51.)--"The number of foundlings which, in 1790, in France, did not exceed twenty-three thousand, is now (year X.) more than sixty-three thousand.

"Statistique de la Sarthe," by Auvray, prefect, year, X.)--In the Lot-et-Garonne (Statistique, by Peyre, prefet, year X ), more than fifteen hundred foundlings are counted: "this extraordinary number increased during the Revolution through the too easy admission of foundlings into the asylums, through the temporary sojourning of soldiers in their homes, through the disturbance of every moral and religious principle."-- "It is not rare to find children of thirteen and fourteen talking and acting in a way that would have formerly disgraced a young man of twenty." (Moselle, Analyse, by Ferriere.)--"The children of workmen are idle and insubordinate; some indulge in the most shameful conduct against their parents;" others try stealing and use the coarsest language." (Meurthe, Statistique, by Marquis, prefet.)--Cf.