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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 6 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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At the end of six years, nearly all the rectors, proviseurs and professors of philosophy, many other professors and a number of the censors,[6309] are all priests.

At the Sorbonne, M.Cousin has been silenced and M.Guizot replaced by M.
Durosoir.

At the College de France we have dismissed Tissot and we do not accept M.Magendie.We "suppress" in block the Faculty of Medicine in order that, on reorganizing it, our hands may be free and eleven professors with bad notes be got rid of, among others Pinel, Dubois, de Jussieu, Desgenettes, Pelletan and Vauquelin.

We suppress another center of insalubrities, the upper Ecole Normale, and, for the recruitment of our educational body, we institute[6310] at the principal seat of each academy a sort of university novitiate where the pupils, few in number, expressly selected, prepared from their infancy, will imbibe deeper and more firmly retain the sound doctrines suitable to their future condition.
We let the small seminaries multiply and fill up until they comprise 50,000 pupils.

It is the bishop who founds them; no educator or inspector of education is so worthy of confidence.


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