Nearly all of these rest unexecuted....

Primary schools have nowhere, one may say, been organized, and those which have been are so poor they had better not have been organized at all.

With a pompous and costly system of public instruction, ten years have been lost for instruction."] [Footnote 3164: Moniteur, XXI., 644.

(Session of Fructidor 19, year II.) One of the members says: "It is very certain, and my colleagues see it with pain, that public instruction is null."-- Fourcroy: "Reading and writing are no longer taught."-- Albert Duruy, p.208.

(Report to the Directory executive, Germinal 13, year IV.) "For nearly six years no public instruction exists."-- De La Sicotiere, "Histoire du college de Alencon," p.33: "In 1794, there were only two pupils in the college."-- Lunet, "Histoire du college de Rodez," p.157: "The recitation-rooms remained empty of pupils and teachers from March 1793 to May 16, 1796."-- "Statistiques des prefets," Eure, by Masson Saint-Amand year XIII: "In the larger section of the department, school-houses existed with special endowments for teachers of both sexes.