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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 6 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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135.--"Moniteur," March 14, 1865, Speech of Cardinal Bonnechose in the Senate.] [Footnote 6358: Name of the navy school-ship at Brest .-- TR.] [Footnote 6359: Breal, "Quelques mots, etc.," p.

308: "We need not be surprised that our children, once out of the college, resemble horses just let loose, kicking at every barrier and committing all sorts of capers.

The age of reason has been artificially retarded for them five or six years."] [Footnote 6360: On the tone and turn of conversation among boys in school on this subject in the upper classes and even earlier, I can do no more than appeal to the souvenirs of the reader .-- Likewise, on another danger of the internat, not less serious, which cannot be mentioned.

(Here Taine undoubtedly refers to homosexuality.

(SR.))] [Footnote 6361: Breal, "Excursions pedagogiques," pp.


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