These superintendents inspect the pupils during their studies and recreations, on rising and on going to bed and during the night...

No pupil is allowed to pass the hours set aside for recreation in his own room without permission of the superintendent.

No pupil is allowed to enter the hall of another division without the permission of two superintendents....

The director of studies must examine the books of the pupils whenever he deems it necessary, and as often as once a month." Every hour of the day has its prescribed task; all exercises, including religious observances, are prescribed, each in time and place, with a detail and meticulousness, as if purposely to close all possible issues to personal initiation and everywhere substitute mechanical uniformity for individual diversities.

"The principal duties of the pupils are respect for religion, attachment to the sovereign and the government, steady application, constant regularity, docility and submission to superiors; whoever fails in these duties is punished according to the gravity of the offense."[6146]--In 1812,[6147] the Normal School is still a small one, scarcely housed, lodged in the upper stories of the lycee Louis le Grand, and composed of forty pupils and four masters.