[Footnote 6161: "Travels in France during the Years 1814 and 1815" (Edinburgh, 1816), vol. I., p. 152.] [Footnote 6162: "Ambroise Rendu et l'Université de France," by E. Rendu (1861), pp. 25 and 26. (Letter of the Emperor, Floréal 3, year XIII, and report by Fourcroy.)] [Footnote 6163: "Recueil," etc., by de Beauchamp, I., 151. (Report to the Corps Législatif by Fourcroy, May 6, 1806.)] [Footnote 6164: "Procès-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 lycées 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 siècle."] [Footnote 6166: Quicherat, ibid., p.126.] [Footnote 6167: "The Modern Régime," I. (Laff. I. p. 550.)] [Footnote 6168: Hermann Niemeyer, ibid., I., 153.] [Footnote 6169: "Travels in France," etc., II.,123. (Testimony of a French gentleman.) "The rapid destruction of population in France caused constant promotions, and the army became the career which offered the most chances. It was a profession for which no education was necessary and to which all had access. There, Bonaparte never allowed merit to go unrecognized."] [Footnote 6170: Véron, "Mémoires d'un bourgeois de Paris," I., 127 (year 1806).] [Footnote 6171: Guizot, ibid., pp.59 and 61.--Fabry, "Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de l'instruction publique," III., 102. (On the families of these favorites and on the means made use of to obtain these scholarships.)--Jourdain, "le Budget de l'instruction publique (1857)", p. 144.--In 1809, in the 36 lycées, there are 9,068 pupils, boarding and day scholars, of whom 4,199 are boursiers. In 1811, there are 10,926 pupils, of whom 4,008 are boursiers. In 1813, there are 14,992 pupils, of whom 3,500 are boursiers. At the same epoch, in private establishments, there are 30,000 pupils.] [Footnote 6172: Fabry, ibid., II.,391 (1819). (On the peopling of the lycées and colleges.) "The first nucleus of the boarders was furnished by the Prytanée.... Tradition has steadily transmitted this spirit to all the pupils that succeeded each other for the first twelve years."-- Ibid., III., 112 "The institution of lycees tends to creating a race inimical to repose, eager and ambitious, foreign to the domestic affections and of a military and adventurous spirit."]