Bonaparte maintained and brought up in the lycees, at his own expense and for his own advantage, about 3000 children...

commonly selected from the sons of soldiers or from poor families."-- Fabry, "Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de l'instruction publique," III., 802.

"Children of soldiers whose wives lived in Paris, the sons of office-holders who were prevented by luxury from bringing up their families--such were the scholarships of Paris."-- "In the provinces, the employees in the tax--and post-offices, with other nomadic functionaries--such were the communal scholarships."-- Lunet, "Histoire du college de Rodez," 219, 224.

Out of 150 scholarships, 87 are filled, on the average.] [Footnote 31132: "Recueil," etc., by A.de Beauchamp, I, 171, 187, 192.
(Law of September 17, 1808, article 27, and decision of April 7, 1809.)] [Footnote 31133: Ibid.

Masters of private schools and heads of institutions must pay additionally every year one-quarter of the sums above fixed.