The asylum of Pontarlier lost one-half of its revenue through reimbursements in paper-money.

All the property of the Ornans asylum has been sold," etc .-- Rocquain, p.187.

(Report by Fourcroy.) Asylums of Orne: their revenue, instead of 123,189 francs, is no more than 68,239 .-- Asylums of Calvados: they have lost 173,648 francs of income, there remains of this only 85,955 francs .-- Passim, heart-rending details on the destitution of the asylums and their inmates, children, the sick and the infirm .-- The figures by which I have tried to show the disproportion between requirements and resources are a minimum.] [Footnote 3154: Abbe Allain, "l'Instruction primaire en France avant la Revolution," and Albert Duruy, "l'Instruction publique et la Revolution," passim.] [Footnote 3155: "Statistique de l'enseignement primaire" (1880),II., CCIV.

The proportion of instructed and uninstructed people has been ascertained in 79 departments, and at various periods, from 1680 down to the year 1876, according to the signatures on 1,699,985 marriage-records .-- In the "Dictionnaire de pedagogie et d'instruction primaire," published by M.Buisson, M.Maggiolo, director of these vast statistics, has given the proportion of literate and illiterate people for the different departments; now, from department to department, the figures furnished by the signatures on marriage records correspond with sufficient exactness to the number of schools, verified moreover by pastoral visits and by other documents.

The most illiterate departments are Cantal, Puy-de-Dome, Nievre, Allier, Vienne, Haute-Vienne, Deux-Sevres, Vendee and the departments of Brittany.] [Footnote 3156: One sou equals 1/20 of a franc or 5 centimes.