(Documents and testimony of pupils showing that religion in the lycees is only ceremonial practice.)--Id., Riancey, "Histoire de l'instruction publique," II.,378.

(Reports of nine chaplains in the royal colleges in 1830 proving that the same spirit prevailed throughout the Restoration: "A boy sent to one of these establishments containing 400 pupils for the term of eight years has only eight or ten chances favoring the preservation of his faith; all the others are against him, that is to say, out of four hundred chances, three hundred and ninety risk his being a man with no religion."] [Footnote 6154: Fabry, ibid., III., 175.

(Napoleon's own words to a member of his council.)--Pelet de la Lozere, ibid., 161: "I do not want priests meddling with public education."-- 167: "The establishment of a teaching corps will be a guarantee against the re-establishment of monks.

Without that they would some day come back."] [Footnote 6155: Fabry, ibid, III., 120.

(Abstract of the system of lycees by a pupil who passed many years in two lycees.) Terms for board 900 francs, insufficiency of food and clothing, crowded lectures and dormitories, too many pupils in each class, profits of the principal who lives well, gives one grand dinner a week to thirty persons, deprives the dormitory, already too narrow, of space for a billiard-table, and takes for his own use a terrace planted with fine trees.