25 and 26.

(Letter of the Emperor, Floreal 3, year XIII, and report by Fourcroy.)] [Footnote 6163: "Recueil," etc., by de Beauchamp, I., 151.

(Report to the Corps Legislatif by Fourcroy, May 6, 1806.)] [Footnote 6164: "Proces-verbaux et papiers" (manuscripts) of the superior council of the University, session of March 12, 1811, note by the Emperor communicated by the Grand-Master: "The Grand-Master will direct that in all boarding-schools and institutions which may come into existence, the pupils shall wear a uniform, and that everything shall go on as in the lycees according to military discipline." In the decree in conformity with this, of Nov.

15, 1811, the word military was omitted, probably because it seemed too crude; but it shows the thought behind it, the veritable desire of Napoleon .-- Quicherat," Histoire de Sainte-Barbe," III., 126.

The decree was enforced "even in the smallest boarding-schools."] [Footnote 6165: Testimony of Alfred de Vigny in "Grandeur et Servitude militaires." Same impression of Alfred de Musset in his "Confession d'un enfant du siecle."] [Footnote 6166: Quicherat, ibid., p.126.] [Footnote 6167: "The Modern Regime," I.( Laff.