("Institutions," by Saint-Just.)] [Footnote 21108: Buchez et Roux, XXXI., 261.

(Meeting of Nivose 17.) On the committee presenting the final draft of the decrees on public instruction the Convention adopts the following article: "All boys who, on leaving the primary schools of instruction, do not devote themselves to tillage, will be obliged to learn some science, art or occupation useful to society.

Otherwise, on reaching twenty, they will be deprived of citizens' rights for ten years, and the same penalty will be laid on their father, mother, tutor or guardian."] [Footnote 21109: Decree of Prairial 13, year II.] [Footnote 21110: Langlois, "Souvenirs de l'Ecole de Mars."] [Footnote 21111: Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 355.

(Report by Robespierre, Floreal 18, year II.)] [Footnote 21112: Moniteur, XVIII., 326.

(Meeting of the Commune, Brumaire 11, year II.) the commissary announces that, at Fontainebleau and other places, "he has established the system of equality in the prisons and places of confinement, where the rich and the poor partake of the same food."-- Ibid., 210.