(Drawn up by the head establishment.) Out of the 121 houses of 1789, there were 117 of these in France and 4 in the colonies.

Out of the 1,286 houses of 1888, there are 1,010 in France and in the colonies.

The other 276 are in other countries.] [Footnote 5311: Emile Keller, "Les Congregations religieuses en France" (1880), preface, xxIII., xvIII., and p.

492.] [Footnote 5312: In 1789, 37,000 Sisters; in 1866, 86,000 Sisters ("Statistique de la France," 1866); in 1878, 127,753 Sisters ("Etat des congregations," etc.).] [Footnote 5313:.

(But today, around 1990, there are only 5 nuns per 10,000 inhabitants.