"The university undertakes all public institutions, and must strive to have as few private institutions as possible.] [Footnote 6114: Eugene Rendu, "Ambroise Rendu et l'Universite de France" (1861), pp.25, 26.

(Letter of the Emperor to Fourcroy, Floreal 3, year XIII, ordering him to inspect the lycees and Report of Fourcroy at the end of four months.) "In general, the drum.

the drill and military discipline keep the parents in most of the towns from sending their children to the lycee....

Advantage is taken of this measure to make parents believe that the Emperor wants only to make soldiers." Ibid.
(Note of M.de Champagny, Minister of the Interior, written a few months later.) "A large half of the heads (of the lycee) or professors is, from a moral point of view, completely indifferent.

One quarter, by their talk, their conduct, their reputation, exhibit the most dangerous character in the eyes of the youths...