1004, cartons 3044 and 3145.
(Report of the councillors of state on mission in the year IX .-- First military division, Report of Lacuee.) Aisne: "There is now no primary school according to legal institution."-- The situation is the same in Oise, also in Seine for the districts of Sceaux and Saint Denis.] [Footnote 3172: Albert Duruy, 178.

(Report drawn up in the bureaux of the ministry of the interior, year VIII.) "A detestable selection of those called instructors; almost everywhere, they are men without morals or education, who owe their nomination solely to a pretended civism, consisting of nothing but an insensibility to morality and propriety.
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They affect an insolent contempt for the (old) religious opinions."-- Ibid., p.497.

(Proces-verbaux des conseils-generaux.) On primary school-teachers, Herault: "Most are blockheads and vagabonds."-- Pas-de-Calais:" Most are blockheads or ignoramuses."] [Footnote 3173: Rocquam, '94.

(Report by Fourcroy on the 14th military division, Manche, Orne, Calvados.) "Besides bad conduct, drunkenness, and the immorality of many of these teachers, it seems certain that the lack of instruction in religion is the principal motive which prevents parents from sending their children to these schools."-- Archives nationales, ibid.