They cannot keep pupils so long; their pupils enter their seminaries only as day scholars."] [Footnote 5270: Old-fashioned name for the 11th grade in a French high school.

(SR.)] [Footnote 5271: "Histoire de M.Emery," by Abbe Elie Meric, I., 15, 17.

"From 1786 onwards, plays written by the 'les philosophes,' by the 'Robertuis' and the Laon community; they were excluded from the great seminary where they ought never to have been admitted." This reform was effected by the new director, M.Emery, and met with such opposition that it almost cost him his life.] [Footnote 5272: M.de Talleyrand, "Memoires," vol.i.

(Concerning one of his gallantries.) "The superiors might have had some Suspicion,...

but Abbe couturier had shown them how to shut their eyes.