177.)] [Footnote 5359: Th.-W.

Allies, "Journal," etc., p.240 (Aug.

2, 1848, conversation with Abbe Petitot):" In 1830, the priests were obliged for two years to abandon wearing their costume in the street, and only recovered their popularity by their devotion to the sick at the time of the cholera."-- In 1848, they had won back respect and sympathy; "the people came and begged them to bless their liberty-poles."-- Abbe Petitot adds: "The church gains ground every day, but rather among the upper than the lower classes."] [Footnote 5360: Emile Keller, "Les Congregations," etc., p.362 (with the figures in relation to Schools).--"Debats" of April 27, 1890 (with the figures in relation to hospitals.

Deaths increased in the eighteen secularized hospitals at the rate of four per cent).] [Footnote 5361: Fournier de Flaix, "Journal de la Societe de Statistique," number for Sep.

1890, p.260.