52. Statue of liberty in the Place de Louis XV.; it was a plaister statue, and the character of the countenance that of the most shameless strumpet. A stranger asked Prudhomme what it was, 66 nous lui répondimes, qu'on disait qu'elle était l'emblème de la liberté. Monsieur, ce ne peut être qu'une liberté provisoire, nous répondit-il." More than 1500 were guillotined at the feet of this statue in the course of twentyseven months, "Toujours devant la statue de la liberté." 77. At one of their fetes there were some statues upon a scaffolding-prejudice, folly, and liberty. The two first were to be thrown down; but by a blunder in the machinery they let liberty fall, and that of folly remained standing. 83. There was a "superbe tapis vert" in the great walk of oranges in the Tuileries Garden. The Commune destroyed it to plant potatoes, and they planted potatoes also in the parterres ! 89. An invalid talking of the invasion in England, he anticipated a naval action and victory of course, and tracing the place upon the sand, spit upon the ground, saying, "Voilà la Tamise." 133. A monument to Marat in the Place du Carrousel. Lazouski was buried under it. And a man who to show his contempt for both, or possibly for want of a more convenient place, did there what As in Presenti did in the entry, was guillotined for it. 176. A curious lottery story of a dream. 182. A good story of an idiot who was consulted concerning a lucky number in the notary. 246. Tailleur unique, ou Veloci-Tailleur, who makes a suit in two hours. 265. Three men employed in cutting paper for the Latrines in the Palais Royal. 287. Nine female breast plates found, 1628. 347. In Denon's cabinet, there is a tooth of Voltaire set in a ring. P. 14. SPECTACLE of taking a fort exhibited at Paris. Now, he says, the French do not require such an exhibition, they have taken so many, and with such facility. They have however had an exhibition of this kind at Paris upon a grand scale,— and it was not Blucher's fault if it was not in perfection. 57. David at the massacres of September, sketching the dying! 121. The tocsin of the Hotel de Ville used to sound three days and nights for the birth of a Dauphin or heir apparent. 123. Inscriptions there in honour of Louis XIV. for revoking the Edict of Nantes, and protecting James and his family. 185. Oyster eaters. Six such amateurs upon calculation found it cheaper to go to the sea for a meal, than make one in Paris. A noble lie of an Abbé who eat himself 300 dozen! They drink milk with oysters in Paris. Warm milk is believed to be "le seul dissolvant" of oysters. 259. During three years the Convention had four persons travelling to buy up paper as fast as it was manufactured. So well did they know the value of popular opinion, that they struck off 400,000 copies of some of Robespierre's speeches, and of others which they were most desirous of circulating. Le Génie de la Révolution considéré dans l'Education. P. 6. EDICT 1724, for village schools. If no other funds, 150 fr. a year for a schoolmistress to be levied on the parish. 23. Condorcet. Natural religion proscribed. "Toute religion particulière est 353. Too high a price demanded for bu- mauvaise." 25. Condorcet. Study of the ancient languages, injurious. Physical lectures were however to be given, and the people to be cured of superstition by exhibiting before them the miracle of Elijah and S. Januarius. 30-1. Condorcet. Reason was to teach the soldier discipline and the citizen submission to the laws; but the system of society was imperfect while men obeyed any thing except their own reason. 41. Petit. He begins education with the embryo. 39. Dupont. The philosophers Petion, Sieyes, Condorcet, &c. were to give peripatetic lessons in the Pantheon to disciples from all parts of Europe, and send them home well instructed in the system of the world, the social system, and the art of overturning government. Le Pelletier was stabbed by Paris, the garde du corps, Robespierre said, that the genius of humanity appeared to have traced this plan of education. 53. Leonard Bourdon. In case the parents disapproved the manner in which they educated, their children were to be watched, and if it were discovered that they brought them up in principle contrary to liberty and equality, then a proces-verbal was to be drawn up, and the children sent to the houses of equality. Robespierre. "L'Imagination pose les bornes du possible et de l'impossible; mais quand on a le courage de bien faire, il faut franchir ces bornes." Danton. Their education was to be gratuitous, food, lodging and instruction provided by the nation. 54. Lakanal proposed and carried the 42. Ducos. "Il faut opter entre l'édu- suppression of all colleges and faculties of cation domestique et la liberté." theology, medicine, arts, and jurisprudence over the whole surface of the republic. 63. Chenier. " Completez cet Evangile de l'égalité. 44. Rabaut S. Etienne proposed that every Sunday the municipal officers should give a lesson of morals in the National Temple; and that at the age of twenty-one every citizen, on pain of certain punishments, should be bound to show that he was master of some trade by which he could gain his bread. 47. Lakanal-one theatre at least in every canton where the women were to learn to dance, and the men to exercise themselves in dancing. 47. Lequinio, a daily journal by a philosophical committee to enlighten the country people. 48. Michel Le Pelletier. All children from five years old, the boys till twelve, the girls till eleven, to be educated in common at the expence of the Republic, and under the holy law of equality. There was room enough in the old castles of feudality. The boys to learn to till the earth, to be employed in manufacture, or in picking stones upon the high ways; hospitals annexed to the schools, and the children in rotation to wait upon the aged and the infirm. And religion not to be spoken of to them. After 68. Bouquier. "Au peuple qui a conquis la liberté il ne faut que des hommes agissans, vigoureux, robustes." 68. Bouquier. The best schools - - the most useful, where youth may receive a republican education, are, doubt it not, the public assemblies of the departments, districts, and municipalities, the tribunals— and above all the popular societies. From these pure sources they will derive a knowledge of the rights and of other duties of the laws and of republican morality. Then the revolution has every where placed inexhaustible sources of instruction. 69. Primary schools were voted, and then it had been declared in that same sitting that "L'enseignement est libre," when the clause was read, "Les parens pourront envoyer leurs enfans." Chartier, (he of Lyons!) moved as an amendment, seront tenus. Thebaudeau opposed this invoking the right of nature, but Danton said it was time to establish the great principle, "que les enfans appartiennent à la république avant d'appartenir à leurs parens," and the amendment was carried. 73. Gregoire. "Bientôt les peuples détrompés se hateront d'atteindre leur virilité politique, et les voleans allumés sous les trônes feront explosion." This same ex-bishop said that Brutus by the hand of Ankerstrom had delivered the earth from a despot. create imaginary worlds, and substitute phantoms for realities. At all times a reproach has been cast upon physicians which does them honour. 282. Sherlok (who is he?) If you would form republicans "mefiez-vous de la foiblesse des parens”—a common education,— circumstances not courage prevented the Convention from drawing this hardy con 82. Gregoire. Laws for pregnancy, lying sequence from the system of equality. in, and lactation! 89. Gregoire. The 4000 diseases which Sauvage had enumerated might certainly be reduced to a very small number, by the effect of a revolution which restores us to nature, and which in its physical and moral consequence reconstitutes the human race. He complained that the female sex owed large arrears to patriotism. 110. Loiserolles when his son was called for execution or trial (the sure prelude), answered in his name, and died for him. 138. Normal schools, 1400 pupils collected from the country, the ablest sçavans at the head, and the conference between the masters and the pupils taken in short hand. The pupil got tired. Romme called it "Le charlatanisme organisé;" but in reality La Harpe, who was one of the professors, had begun to preach Christianity, and this is said to have been the sole cause of its suppression. 144. Lakanal, 24,000 national schools proposed for 40,000 masters and mistresses, and about 3,600,000 children, this would be the greatest expense which the Republic would have to support in time of peace. 155. The national fete of the 10th of Aug. 1793, cost 1,200,000 livres, "et de tout cela il n'est resté que du plâtre et du papier." 155. Lavicomterie. Chairs of calculating morality to be established, and a premium for a graduated scale of crimes and their consequences, to instruct the people. Had 196. Chaptal. Anatomy and physiology ought to be the bases of education. this been the march of education we should never have seen disordered imaginations, From 7 to 10 at the primary schools ;from 19 to 21 arms, navigation, or a mechanical trade. And unless a youth be either in a tent, a primary school, or a workshop-he and his father lose the right of citizenship, pay double contribution, and in the army he shall be with the baggage in the post of dishonour. 392. Character of the Lyceums well drawn. 408. Schools of medicine made schools of atheism and of corruption. Tom. 2. P. 68. BARRERE in a report upon the necessity of revolutionizing the language (8 Pluviose. an 2.) says that in the department of the High and Low Rhine, the peasants speaking German, thought themselves more the brethren and fellow-citizens of the Prussians and Austrians than of the French. And that on the retreat of the Germans more than 25,000 men emigrated from the country of the Lower Rhine, leaving almost a whole department without husbandmen. 186. Lakanal. His nonsense about L'analyse. 188. Lakanal. The regeneration of the human mind was to be effected by the Normal Schools, which were to teach the art of teaching. For the first time upon earth, nature, truth, reason, and philosophy were now to have their seminary. The most eminent men in talents and science were to be the professors, and the most promising subjects from all parts of the Republic for their abilities and their civism were to be chosen as pupils by the constituted authorities. And having completed at Paris a course of the art of teaching human knowledge, the savants and philosophic youth penetrated with these great lessons, were to return and repeat them in all parts of the Republic. This was the art of nature and of genius. 191. Turgot wished to possess for one year the power of realizing without obstacles and without delay, all the plans he had conceived in favour of reason, liberty and humanity. 220. Daunou, six months after Lakanal's report on the establishment-reports the necessity of shutting up the Normal School. That at Paris had excited as much contempt in its progress as enthusiasm at its foundation. It had been only three months in activity. Tom. 3. P.4. THE University is no other thing than government applied to the universal direction of public instruction. The University has the monopoly of education almost as the Tribunals have the monopoly of justice, and the army that of the public force. 5. A collection of its constitutions forms several thick volumes more in bulk than that of the congregations, orders and corporate bodies which had endured. 13. Fourcroy was the great planner-he made twenty-three plans before B. was satisfied, and when after five years of this labour he expected to have been placed at the head of the University, the chagrin is Isaid to have killed him. 17. Robespierre, says Daunou, had converted the benefit of education into a rigorous servitude by the barbarous law which tore the child from the arms of its father. But upon this principle Bonaparte planned his Imperial University, with this difference, that by Robespierre's plan education would have been at the national expense, Bonaparte made it a monopoly, and the company were to make the most of it. 18. Brevets of the masters. 185. I instituted the University, said B. to take education out of the hands of the priests. Priests consider this world only as a Diligence for conveying people to the other. I want to have the Diligence filled with good soldiers for my armies. 253-4. Charges against the old colleges of having bred the revolutionists. 256. Well answered. 268. Jesuits. 316. "Chabot, opinant sur la liberté de la presse, vota contre cette liberté, disant qu'elle avoit été nécessaire pour amener le règne de la liberté, mais que, ce but une fois atteint, il ne falloit plus de liberté de la presse, de peur de compromettre la liberté elle même." 342. Schools in ique and in ie. 343. "la révolution seroit finie, quand ceux qui l'ont faite l'auroient pardonnée à ceux qui l'ont soufferte." M. de Bonald. 418. The sovereign people. M. de Revarol said, "Sa Majesté est tranquille quand elle digère." 442. Monopoly of the University. 459. Lacroix. "La constitution, voilà, notre évangile; la liberté, voilà notre dieu; je n'en connois point d'autre." 461. A Quaker wanted to keep on his hat in the tribune when he was present at a sitting of the Council of Antients. And the President thought the council by al lowing him to remain with it on, would give a proof of its respect for the freedom of religious opinions. The order of the day was carried upon a very sensible remark by Rousseau. "He may come with his coat buttoned after the fashion of the Quakers if he please,—but let him take off his hat, or stay away. Si la délicatesse de sa conscience ne peut céder à sa curiosité, qu'il fasse céder sa curiosité à la délicatesse de sa conscience." Recueil. Tom. 4. P. 625. INTENTION to abolish private schools. FABER'S State of France. P. 13. WAR and revenue sole objects of B's. government. 15. Official business reduced to mere obedience, the art only of doing what the government requires for the moment. They who order think only of the wants of the moment. They who execute dare not look further. 16. Offices sought merely for profit. 18. Enormous salaries of the prefect, 23, rapacity. 48. Regular system of falsehood. 50. God rested after he had created B! 96. The Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the immense Behemoth. 114. Lucien B. being complimented upon his speech in favour of the Concordat dicitur dixisse-it would have been far better had it been made against it. 115. God brought him out of Egypt to make him the man of his own right hand. 116. Blasphemous flatteries of the clergy, 116-7. 119. Character of the clergy, and paucity. 123. Mockery of the pope. 134. St. Napoleone. WALSH'S Letter. P. 63. HE predicts confidently the inability of Russia to resist France. ST. PIERRE. Harmonies de la Nature. P. 55. BULBOUus and other plants, he says, have as many circles in the root as they are months in growing, "c'est ce qu'on peut voir surtout dans celles des carottes, des betteraves, et dans les bulbes des ognons. Peut-être étoit-ce à cause de ces rapports lunaires que les Egyptiens avoient consacré l'ognon à Isis ou à la lune, qu'ils adoroient sous le nom de cette déesse. Ce qu'il y a de certain, c'est que ces racines ont pour l'ordinaire sept cercles concentriques, c'est à dire autant qu'ils ont été de mois à croître, depuis le commencement de Mars où on les sème, jusqu'à la fin de Septembre où on les recueille." 143. "Les arbres aquatiques, tels que les saules, les aunes, les peupliers, sont par leurs racines autant de machines hydrauliques. Ils pomperoient sans bruit l'eau des marais, en changeroient le méphitisme en air pure, et par leur dépouilles annuelles en transformeroient le sol ingrat en terre féconde." 159. Danton in his dungeon said with a sigh, "Ah! si je pouvois voir un arbre." 175. Busbequius is the person who introduced the lilac into Europe. 212. In Normandy they burn the straw of the bed belonging to a deceased person before his door, where for a time it leaves un rond tout noir sur le gazon." 66 341 "Les philosophes crient beaucoup contre l'intolérance théologique, mais elle |