(According to the reports of 15 central schools, from the year VI.

to the year VIII.) The average for each central school is for drawing, 89 pupils; for mathematics, 28; for the classics, 24; for physics, chemistry and natural history, 19; for general grammar, 5; for history, 10; for legislation, 8: for belles-lettres, 6 .-- Rocquam, ibid., P.29.

(Reports of Francais de Nantes, on the departments of the South-east.) "There, as elsewhere, the courses on general grammar, on belles-lettres, history and legislation, are unfrequented.

Those on mathematics, chemistry, Latin and drawing are better attended, because these sciences open up lucrative careers .-- Ibid., p.108.

(Report by Barbe-Marboi on the Brittany departments.)] [Footnote 3171: "Statistiques des prefets," Meurthe, by Marquis, year XIII, p.120.