300,000 men recruited, which measure partly fails; the recruit can always get off by furnishing a substitute.4th.Levy in mass of 500,000 men, called volunteers, but really conscripts."] [Footnote 3264: "Memorial" (Speech by Napoleon before the Council of State).

"I am inflexible on exemptions; they would be crimes; how relieve one's conscience of having caused one man to die in the place of another ?"--"The conscription was an unprivileged militia: it was an eminently national institution and already far advanced in our customs; only mothers were still afflicted by it, while the time was coming when a girl would not have a man who had not paid his debt to his country."] [Footnote 3265: Law of Fructidor 8, year XIII, article 10 .-- Pelet de La Lozere, 229.

(Speech by Napoleon, Council of State, May 29, 1804.)--Pelet adds: "The duration of the service was not fixed....

As a fact in itself, the man was exiled from his home for the rest of his life, regarding it as a desolating, permanent exile....

Entire sacrifice of existence....