The public informed itself about victories, as well as the conscription, in the articles of the 'Moniteur,' posted by the prefects."-- From 1847 to 1891, we all know by our own experience that the number of readers has augmented prodigiously.] [Footnote 5349: I wonder what Taine would have said of television, that system which allows its producers to make all mankind believe that the lies and figments of the imaginations put in front of them show the true and real world as it is.

(SR.)] [Footnote 5350: An expression by Renan in relation to Abbe Lehir, an accomplished professor of Hebrew.] [Footnote 5351: Th.

W.Allies, rector of Launton, "Journal d'un voyage en France," p.245.

(A speech by Father Ravignan, August 3, 1848) "What nation in the Roman church is more prominent at the present day for its missionary labors?
France, by far.

There are ten French missionaries to one Italian." Several French congregations, especially the "Petites Soeurs des Pauvres" and the "Freres des Ecoles Chretiennes," are so zealous and so numerous that they overflow outside of France and have many establishments abroad.] [Footnote 5352: "Manreze du pretre," by Father Caussette, II.,419: "Now that I have placed one of your hands in those of Mary let me place the other in those of Saint Joseph....