a list of ten in each department, and of fifty for Paris," of which the sons from sixteen to eighteen years of age shall be forced to enter Saint-Cyr and from thence go into the army as second lieutenants.

In 1813, still "in the highest classes of society," and arbitrarily selected by the prefects, he takes ten thousand other persons, exempt or redeemed from the conscription, even the married, even fathers of families, who, under the title of guards of honor, become soldiers, at first to be slaughtered in his service, and next, and in the mean time, to answer for the fidelity of their relatives.

It is the old law of hostages, a resumption of the worst proceedings of the Directory for his account and aggravated for his profit .-- Decidedly, the imperial Regime, for the old royalists, resembles too much the Jacobin regime; they are about as repugnant to one as to the other, and their aversion naturally extends to the whole of the new society .-- As they comprehend it, they are more or less robbed and oppressed for a quarter of a century.

In order that their hostility may cease, the indemnity of 1825 is essential, fifty years of gradual adaptation, the slow elimination of two or three generations of fathers and the slow elimination of two or three generations of sons.
Nothing is so difficult as the reparation of great social wrongs.
In this case the incomplete reparation did not prove sufficient; the treatment which began with gentleness ended with violence, and, as a whole, the operation only half succeeded.
IV.

Education and Medical Care.
Confiscation of collective fortunes .-- Ruin of the Hospitals and Schools.
Other wounds are not less deep, and their cure is not less urgent; for they cause suffering, not only to one class, but to the whole people--that vast majority which the government strives to satisfy.
Along with the property of the emigres, the Revolution has confiscated that of all local or special societies, ecclesiastic or laic, of churches and congregations, universities and academies, schools and colleges, asylums and hospitals, and even the property of the communes.
All these fortunes have been swallowed up by the public treasury, which is a bottomless pit, and are gone forever .-- Consequently, all services thus maintained, especially charitable institutions, public worship and education, die or languish for lack of sustenance; the State, which has no money for itself, has none for them.