1807, with the list of succursals by departments .-- Besides the succursalists paid by the State, there were vicars not less dependent on the bishop and maintained by allowances from the communes or by private donations.
(Bercastel et Henrion, XIII., p.32, speech by M.Roux-Laborie in the chamber of Deputies, 1816.) "In his re-composition of the Church of France the usurper established 12,000 vicars dependent on alms, and it will not surprise you that, instead of 12,000, there were only 5000 who were courageous enough to die of starvation or implore public charity....

Thus are 4000 country churches without worship or minister."] [Footnote 5197: Thibaudeau, p.

166, and article of Brumaire 30, in the Moniteur.] [Footnote 5198: Roederer, III., p.

479 et seq.

(Report on the Senatorerie of Caen.) The priests everywhere feel that they are watched and set aside.