18.] [Footnote 5263: "De l'Etat actuel du clerge en France" (1839), p.248, by the brothers Allignol.

Careers of every kind are too crowded; "only the ecclesiastical is in want of subjects; willing youths are the only ones wanted and none are found." This is due, say these authors, to the profession of assistant-priest being too gloomy--eight years of preparatory study five years in the seminary, 800 francs of pay with the risk of losing it any day, poor extras, a life-servitude, no retiring pension, etc.--"Le Grand Peril de L'Eglise en France," by Abbe Bougaud (4th ed., 1879), pp 2-23.--"Lettre Circulaire" (No.

53) of Mgr.
Thiebaut, archbishop of Rouen, 1890, p.618.] [Footnote 5264: There is a gradual suppression of the subvention in 1877 and 1853 and a final one in 1885.] [Footnote 5265: Abbe Bougaud, Ibid., p.

118, etc .-- The lower seminary contains about 200 or 250 pupils.

Scarcely one of these pays full board.
They pay on the average from 100 to 200 frs.