Many of its pupils enlisted in 1792, and were promised that their scholarships should be retained for them on their return; hence the military spirit of the "Prytanee."-- By virtue of a decree, March 5, 1806, a perpetual income of 400,000 francs was transferred to the Prytanee de Saint-Cyr.

It is this income which, by the decree of March 24, 1808, becomes the endowment of the imperial University.

Henceforth, the expenses of the Prytanee de Saint-Cyr are assigned to the war department.] [Footnote 31136: Alexis Chevalier, Ibid., p.265.Allocution to the "Ignorantin" brethren.] [Footnote 31137: "The Ancient Regime," pp.13-15.

(Laff.

I.pp.17 and 18.)--"The Revolution," III., p.54.