All their possessions, except large buildings, were alienated and sold, as well as those of the 60 communities in which girls were taught gratuitously .-- Eure, by Masson Saint-Amand.

There were previous to 1789, 8 high-schools which were all suppressed and destroyed .-- Drome, by Collin, p.66.Before the revolution, each town had its high-school," etc.] [Footnote 3162: Cf.

Marmontel, "Memoires," I., 16, for details of these customs; M.Jules Simon found the same customs afterwards and describes them in the souvenirs of his youth .-- La Chalotais, at the end of the reign of Louis XV., had already described the efficiency of the institution.

"Even the people want to study.

Farmers and craftsmen send their children to the schools in these small towns where living is cheap."-- This rapid spread of secondary education contributed a good deal towards bringing on the revolution.] [Footnote 3163: "Statistiques des prefets," Indre, by Dalphonse, year XII, p.104: "The universities, the colleges, the seminaries, the religious establishments, the free schools are all destroyed; vast plans only remain for a new system of education raised on their ruins.