In 1789, at Metz, there are 524 illegitimate births; in the year IX, 646; in 1789, 70 prostitutes; in the year IX, 260.

There is the same increase of kept women."-- Peuchet, "Essai d'une statistique generale de la France," year IX, p.28.

"The number of illegitimate births, from one forty-seventh in 1780, increased to nearly one eleventh of the total births, according to the comparative estimates of M.Necker and M.Mourgue."] [Footnote 3149: Rocquam, ibid., p.93.

(Report of Barbe-Marbois.)] [Footnote 3150: "The Revolution," III., p.416 (note), P.471 (note).
(Laff.II.pp.

307-308, p 348.)] [Footnote 3151: "Statistiques des prefets," Deux-Sevres, by Dupin, p.
174: "Venereal diseases which thanks to good habits.