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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 5 (of 6)

CHAPTER I
95/99

(236 pupils in the Ghent seminary are enrolled in an artillery brigade and sent off to Wesel, where about fifty of them die in the hospital.)--"Souvenirs", by PASQUIER (Etienne-Dennis, duc) Librarie Plon, Paris 1893.

(Numbers of Belgian priests confined in the castles of Ham, Bouillon and Pierre-Chatel were set free after the Restoration.)] [Footnote 31139: Decree of November 15, 1811, art.

28, 29, and 30.
(Owing to M.de Fontanes, the small seminaries were not all closed, many of them, 41, still existing in 1815.)] [Footnote 31140: Collection of laws and decrees, passim, after 1802.] [Footnote 31141: Documents furnished by M.Alexis Chevalier, former director of public charities.

The total amount of legacies and bequests is as follows: 1st Asylums and hospitals, from January 1, 1800, to December 31, 1845, 72,593,360 francs; from January 1st, 1846, to December 31, 1855, 37,107,812; from January 1st, 1856, to December 31, 1877, 121,197,774.

in all, 230,898,346 francs .-- 2d.


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