(According to registers kept in the archiepiscopal archives in Paris)--"Compte-rendu des operations du Conseil d'administration des pompes funebres a Paris" (1889): funerals wholly civil in 1882, 19.33 per cent; in 1888, 19.04 per cent; in 1889, 18.63 per cent.--"Atlas de statistique municipale." ("Debats" of July 10, 1890:) The poorer the arrondissement, the greater the number of civil funerals; Menilmontant wins hands down, one third of the funerals here being civil.] [Footnote 5362: Abbe Joseph Roux (cure at first of Saint-Silvain, near Tulle, and then in a small town of Correze), "Pensees," p.

132 (1886): "There is always something of the pagan in the peasant.

He is original sin in all its brutish simplicity."-- "The peasant passed from paganism to Christianity mostly through miracles; he would go back at less cost from Christianity to paganism....

It is only lately that a monster exists, the impious peasant....

The rustic, in spite of school-teachers, even in spite of the cures, believes in sorcerers and in sorcery the same as the Gauls and Romans."-- Therefore the means employed against him are wholly external.