Charity bureaux.
From January 1st, 1800, to December 31, 1845, 49,911,090; from January 1st, 1846, to December 31, 1873, 115,629,925; from January 1st 1874, to December 31, 1877, 19,261,065.

In all, 184,802,080 francs .-- Sum total, 415,701,026 francs.] [Footnote 31142: According to the statements of M.de Watteville and M.
de Gasparin.] [Footnote 31143: Report by Fourcroy, annexed to the exposition of the empire and presented to the Corps Legislatif, March 5, 1806.] [Footnote 31144: Coup d'oeil general sur l'education et l'instruction publique en France," by Basset, censor of studies at Charlemagne college (1816),--p.

21.] [Footnote 31145: "Statistique de l'enseignement primaire," II., CCIV.
(From 1786 to 1789, 47 out of 100 married men and 26 married women out of a hundred signed their marriage contract.

From 1816 to 1820, the figures show 54 husbands and 34 wives.)--Morris Birbeck, "Notes of a Journey through France in July, August and September 1814." p.3 (London, 1815).

"I am told that all the children of the laboring classes learn to read, and are generally instructed by their parents."] [Footnote 31146: Madame de Remusat, I., 243.