Priests, altars and worship must accordingly be left to the mass of the people."] [Footnote 3185: Peuchet, "Statistique elementaire de la France" (published in 1805), p.228.According to statements furnished by prefects in the years IX and X, the population is 33,111,962 persons; the annexation of the island of Elbe and of Piedmont adds 1,864,350 Total, 34,976,313 .-- Pelet de la Lozere, P.203.

(Speech by Napoleon to the council of state, February 4, 1804, on the Protestant seminaries of Geneva and Strasbourg, and on the number of Protestants in his states.) "Their population numbers only 3 millions."] [Footnote 3186: Roederer, III., 330 (July 1800): "The First Consul spoke to me about the steps necessary to be taken to prevent the (emigres) who had been struck off from getting back their possessions, in view of maintaining the interest in the revolution of about 1,200,000 purchasers of national domains.

"-- Rocquain, "Etat de la France au 18 Brumaire." (Report by Barbe-Marbois on Morbihan, Finisterre, Ile-et-Vilaine, and Cotes-du-Nord, year IX.) "In every place I have just passed through the proprietors recognize that their existence is attached to that of the First Consul."] [Footnote 3187: Constitution of Frimaire 22, year VIII, art.
94 .-- Article 93, moreover, declares that "the possessions of the emigres are irrevocably acquired by the republic."] [Footnote 3188: Law of Floreal 29, year X, title I, article 8.

The member also swears "to combat with all the means which justice, reason and the law authorize, every enterprise tending to restore the feudal regime," and, consequently, feudal rights and tithes] [Footnote 3189: Organic Senatus-consulte, Floreal 28, year XII (18th May 1804).

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