(Report by Lacuee on the 1st military division.) "The teachers, male and female, who desired to conform to the law of Brumaire 3 and to the different rules prescribed by the central administration, on placing the constitution and the rights of man in the hands of their pupils, found their schools abandoned one after the other.

The schools the best attended are those where the Testament, the catechism, and the life of Christ are used....

The instructors, obliged to pursue the line marked out by the government, could not do otherwise than carry out the principles which opposed the prejudices and habits of the parents; hence their loss of credit, and the almost total desertion of the pupils."] [Footnote 3174: "The Revolution," vol.III., p.

81, note 2.

(Laff.