In one of our towns of 100,000 inhabitants, the brothels receive about 1,200,000 francs yearly. Footnote 32: Marcus Aurelius, who understood all the importance of moral perfection, thanks the gods for having had a youth of chastity. How few sovereigns can say with him: “Men want a head as flocks do a leader. This head is not above the laws, his life separated from the body of society would be a factious one.... A sovereign cannot do his duty if he does not find advisers to point it out to him,” &c. Footnote 33: Luxuriousness, more ruthless than war, overmastered us, and avenges the world (we have) conquered. Footnote 34: A young debauchee used to get women into a house for base purposes. After debauching his victims he deserted them in the darkness of night in the middle of winter, among the intricacies of a house unknown to them. When, half dead from cold, they dragged themselves in the morning to the doorstep to complain of this barbarity, the young man, questioned by the porter, feigned surprise. At other times, he made sport, impudently, of recriminations he knew to be unable to reach him, and commonly boasted of the privileges of irresponsibility which convert marriage into a profession of trickery. This guardian of our social morality was decorated, in 1848, for having, in the June days, fought _in defence of public tranquillity_. Footnote 35: The purport of this couplet may be thus freely rendered:— “Denied of one fat vice to take their fill, Morsels of several serve them for a meal.” Footnote 36: The protection of the student is insufficient, even in the special schools which have pupil-boarders. They are, it is true, supposed to have guardians, but, in reality, left to themselves twice a week, and on some days, as extra holidays, when they come back, they proceed to get a certificate of good behaviour signed by a guardian, who, busied with his own affairs, cannot have known how they spend their time. Footnote 37: Assize Court of the Seine, sitting of February 4, 1866. Footnote 38: When we reflect that foreign youths learn such manners in France, we are no longer surprised that the profligate, and, too often, the governing portion of Europe, should consider the investigation to discover the father of disowned children inconvenient. Footnote 39: One of our well-known courtesans, in her memoirs, brings to mind one of her former supporters, who was then a public official in a provincial town, and who is sending her stolen expressions of regret, and looking upon his appointment as a post of insupportable banishment, far from the social circle in which he lived with her. Footnote 40: Bishops asserted the Church’s right of deposing adulterous princes, fornicators, &c., and of absolving their subjects from every oath of fidelity to them. (See M. Guizot, “History of Civilization in Europe.”) Footnote 41: