16, 1890:) Vacancies for teachers, 42; number of registered candidates, 1,847.
Vacancies for female teachers, 54; number of candidates, 7,139 .-- 7,085 of these young women, educated and with certificates, and who cannot get these places, must be content to marry some workman, or become housemaids, and are tempted to become lorettes.

(From the church of Notre Dame de Lorette in Paris in the neighborhood of which many young, pretty women of easy virtue were to be found.

(SR.))] [Footnote 6398: Taine wrote this when compulsory education in France kept the children in school until their 13th year.

Today in year 2000 they must stay until they are 16 years old but more often continue until they are 19--23 years old.

(SR.)] [Footnote 6399: In certain cases, the school commission may grant exemptions.