(On the peopling of the lycees and colleges.) "The first nucleus of the boarders was furnished by the Prytanee....

Tradition has steadily transmitted this spirit to all the pupils that succeeded each other for the first twelve years."-- Ibid., III., 112 "The institution of lycees tends to creating a race inimical to repose, eager and ambitious, foreign to the domestic affections and of a military and adventurous spirit."] [Footnote 6173: Quicherat, ibid., III., 126.] [Footnote 6174: Hermann Niemeyer, ibid., II.,350.] [Footnote 6175: Fabry, ibid., III., 109-112.] [Footnote 6176: Ambroise Rendu, "Essai sur l'instruction publique," (1819), I., 221.

(Letter of Napoleon to M.de Fontanes, March 24, 1808.)] [Footnote 6177: "Memorial," June 17, 1816.] [Footnote 6178: Pelet de la Lozere, ibid., 154, 157, 159.] [Footnote 6179: "Memorial," June 17, 1816.

"This conception of the University by Napoleon must be taken with another, of more vast proportions, which he sets forth in the same conversation and which clearly shows his complete plan.

He desired "the military classing of the nation," that is to say five successive conscriptions, one above the other.