After the decree of November 15, 1811, threatening circulars follow each other for fifteen months and always to hold fast or annoy the heads of institutions or private schools.

Even in the smallest boarding-schools, the school exercises must be announced by the drum and the uniform worn under penalty of being shut up] [Footnote 6121: Ibid., III., 42 .-- At Sainte-Barbe, before 1808, there were various sports favoring agility and flexibility of the body, such as running races, etc.

All that is suppressed by the imperial University; it does not admit that anything can be done better or otherwise than by itself.] [Footnote 6122: Decree of March 17, 1808, article 38.

Among "the bases of teaching," the legislator prescribes "obedience to the statutes the object of which is the uniformity of instruction."] [Footnote 6123: Quicherat, III., 128.] [Footnote 6124: "The Modern Regime," I., 164.] [Footnote 6125: See, for a comprehension of the full effect of this forced education, "Les Mecontens" by Merimee, the role of Lieutenant Marquis Edward de Naugis.] [Footnote 6126: "Recueil," by A.de Beauchamp; Report by Fourcroy, April 20, 1802: "The populations which have become united with France and which, speaking a different language and accustomed to foreign institutions, need to abandon old habits and refashion themselves on those of their new country, cannot find at home the essential means for giving their sons the instruction, the manners and the character which should amalgamate them with Frenchmen.

What destiny could be more advantageous for them and, at the same time, what a resource for the government, which desires nothing so much as to attach new citizens to France!"] [Footnote 6127: "Journal d'un detenu de 1807 a 1814" (I vol., 1828, in English), p.167.