In November 1806, Napoleon orders the conscription of 1807; in March 1807, he orders the conscription of 1808, and so on, always from worse to worse .-- Decrees of 1808 and 1813 against young men of family already bought off or exempted.--"Journal d'un Bourgeois d'Evreux," 214.

Desolate state of things in 1813, "general depression and discouragement."-- Miot de Melito, III., 304.

(Report of Miot to the Emperor after a tour in the departments in 1815.) "Everywhere, almost, the women are your declared enemies."] [Footnote 3275: Law of Ventose 17, year VIII, title 3, articles 6, 7, 8, 9 .-- Exemption is granted as a favor only to the ignorantin brothers and to seminarians assigned to the priesthood .-- Cf.

the law of March 10, 1818, articles 15 and 18.].