[Footnote 31131: Law of May 1, 1802, articles 32, 33, and 34.--Guizot, "Essai sur l'instruction publique, I., 59. Bonaparte maintained and brought up in the lycées, at his own expense and for his own advantage, about 3000 children... commonly selected from the sons of soldiers or from poor families."--Fabry, "Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de l'instruction publique," III., 802. "Children of soldiers whose wives lived in Paris, the sons of office-holders who were prevented by luxury from bringing up their families--such were the scholarships of Paris."--"In the provinces, the employees in the tax--and post-offices, with other nomadic functionaries--such were the communal scholarships."--Lunet, "Histoire du collège de Rodez," 219, 224. Out of 150 scholarships, 87 are filled, on the average.] [Footnote 31132: "Recueil," etc., by A. de Beauchamp, I, 171, 187, 192. (Law of September 17, 1808, article 27, and decision of April 7, 1809.)] [Footnote 31133: Ibid. Masters of private schools and heads of institutions must pay additionally every year one-quarter of the sums above fixed. (Law of Sept. 17, 1808, article 25. Law of March 17, 1808, title 17.--Law of February 17, 1809.)] [Footnote 31134: Ibid., I., 189. (Decree of March 24, 1808, on the endowment of the University.)] [Footnote 31135: Emond, "Histoire du collège Louis-le-Grand," p.238. (This college, previous to 1789, enjoyed an income of 450,000 livres.)--Guizot, ibid., I., 62.--This college was maintained during the revolution under the name of the "Prytanée Français" and received in 1800 the property of the University of Louvain. Many of its pupils enlisted in 1792, and were promised that their scholarships should be retained for them on their return; hence the military spirit of the "Prytanée."--By virtue of a decree, March 5, 1806, a perpetual income of 400,000 francs was transferred to the Prytanée de Saint-Cyr. It is this income which, by the decree of March 24, 1808, becomes the endowment of the imperial University. Henceforth, the expenses of the Prytanée de Saint-Cyr are assigned to the war department.] [Footnote 31136: Alexis Chevalier, Ibid., p.265. Allocution to the "Ignorantin" brethren.] [Footnote 31137: "The Ancient Régime," pp.13-15. (Laff. I. pp. 17 and 18.)--"The Revolution," III., p. 54. (Laff. II. pp. 48-49)--Alexis Chevalier, "Les Frères des écoles chrétiennes," p.341. "Before the revolution, the revenues of public instruction exceeded 30 millions."--Peuchet, "Statistique elementaire de la France" (published in 1805), p.256. Revenue of the asylums and hospitals in the time of Necker, 40 millions, of which 23 are the annual income from real-estate and 17 provided by personal property, contracts, the public funds, and a portion from octrois, etc.]