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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 6 (of 6)

CHAPTER I
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550.)] [Footnote 6168: Hermann Niemeyer, ibid., I., 153.] [Footnote 6169: "Travels in France," etc., II.,123.

(Testimony of a French gentleman.) "The rapid destruction of population in France caused constant promotions, and the army became the career which offered the most chances.

It was a profession for which no education was necessary and to which all had access.

There, Bonaparte never allowed merit to go unrecognized."] [Footnote 6170: Veron, "Memoires d'un bourgeois de Paris," I., 127 (year 1806).] [Footnote 6171: Guizot, ibid., pp.59 and 61 .-- Fabry, "Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de l'instruction publique," III., 102.


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