[Footnote 5177: Decree of Feb.25, 1810. (The edict of Louis XIV. is attached to it.) Prohibition to teach or write "anything opposed to the doctrine contained" in the declaration of the French clergy. "Every professor of theology must sign and submit to teaching the doctrine therein set forth."--In establishments where there are several professors "one of them will be annually directed to teach the said doctrine."--In colleges where there is but one professor "he will be obliged to teach it one of three consecutive years."--The professors are required to hand in to the competent authority "their minutes dictated to the pupils."--None of them can be "licensed, whether in theology or in canon law, nor graduated as doctor, without having maintained the said doctrine in one of his theses."] [Footnote 5178: Cf., for details, d'Haussonville, I., p.200 et seq.] [Footnote 5179: Pelet de la Lozère, p. 205. (Words of Napoleon, Feb. 4, 1804.)] [Footnote 5180: A procedure used by Stalin and copied by all his satellite states. (SR.)] [Footnote 5181: Thibaudeau, p.157 (Messidor 2, year X).] [Footnote 5182: Roederer, III., pp. 535, 567.] [Footnote 5183: Pelet de la Lozère, p.203. (Napoleon's words, Feb. 4, 1804.)--Law of March 14, 1804.] [Footnote 5184: Cf. "Letters of Mgr. Claude Simon, bishop of Grenoble, April 18, 1809, and October 6, 1811."] [Footnote 5185: Articles Organiques, p.68.] [Footnote 5186: Bercastel and Henrion, "Histoire générale de l'Église," XIII., p.32. (Speech by M. Roux-Laborie, deputy in 1816.)--At the present day, the ordinations oscillate between 1200 and 1700 per annum.] [Footnote 5187: Decree of November 15, 1811, articles 28, 29, 32. "On and after July 1, 1812, all secondary ecclesiastical schools (small seminaries) which may not be situated in towns possessing a lycée or college shall be closed. No secondary ecclesiastical school shall be placed in the country. In all places where there are ecclesiastical schools the pupils of these schools shall pursue their studies in the lycée or college classes."] [Footnote 5188: "Correspondence of Napoleon (notes for the Minister of Worship), July 30, 1806." In order to be curé of the first class, chanoin, vicar-general or bishop one must henceforth be bachelor, licencié, doctor in the university grades, "which the university may refuse in case the candidate shall be known to entertain ultramontane ideas or ideas dangerous to authority."] [Footnote 5189: D'Haussonville, V., p.144 et seq. (Letter of Napoleon to the Minister of Worship, Oct.22, 1811, omitted in the "correspondence.") The letter ends with these words: "This mode of working must be kept secret."]