Profound corruption, to which the military regime gives an appearance of regularity, a cool impiety which conforms to the outward ceremonies of religion as to the movements of a drill,...
steady tradition has transmitted this spirit to all the pupils that have succeeded each other for twelve years."] [Footnote 6116: Fabry, ibid., vol.II.,12, and vol.III., 399.] [Footnote 6117: Decree of Nov.15, 1811, articles 15, 16, 22.] [Footnote 6118: Quicherat, ibid., III..

93 to 105 .-- Up to 1809, owing to M.de Fontane's toleration, M.de Lanneau could keep one half of his pupils in his house under the name of pupils in preparatory classes, or for the lectures in French or on commerce; nevertheless, he was obliged to renounce teaching philosophy.

In 1810, he is ordered to send all his scholars to the lycee within three months.

There were at this date 400 scholars in Sainte-Barbe.] [Footnote 6119: Decree of Nov.15, 1811, articles 1, 4, 5, 9, 17 to 19 and 24 to 32.--"Proces-verbaux des seances du conseil de l'Universite imperiale." (Manuscripts in the archives of the Ministry of Public Instruction, furnished by M.A.de Beauchamp), session of March 12, 1811, note of the Emperor communicated by the Grand-Master.

"His Majesty requires that the following arrangement be added to the decree presented to him: Wherever there is a lycee, the Grand-Master will order private institutions to be closed until the lycee has all the boarders it can contain." The personal intervention of Napoleon is here evident; the decree starts with him; he wished it at once more rigorous, more decidedly arbitrary and prohibitive.] [Footnote 6120: Quicherat, ibid., III.,95-105 .-- Ibid., 126.