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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 5 (of 6)

CHAPTER I
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48-49)--Alexis Chevalier, "Les Freres des ecoles chretiennes," p.341.

"Before the revolution, the revenues of public instruction exceeded 30 millions."-- Peuchet, "Statistique elementaire de la France" (published in 1805), p.256.Revenue of the asylums and hospitals in the time of Necker, 40 millions, of which 23 are the annual income from real-estate and 17 provided by personal property, contracts, the public funds, and a portion from octrois, etc.] [Footnote 31138: D'Haussonville, "l'Eglise romaine et le premier Empire," vol.IV.et V., passim--Ibid., III., 370, 375.

(13 Italian cardinals and 19 bishops of the Roman states are transported and assigned places in France, as well as many of their grand-vicars and chanoines; about the same date over 200 Italian priests are banished to Corsica) .-- V., 181.

(July 12, 1811, the bishops of Troyes, Tournay and Ghent are sent to (the fortress-prison of) Vincennes.)--V., 286.


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