2245 (return) [ Sauzay, I. 247. Out of three hundred and seventy-seven nuns at Doubs, three hundred and fifty-eight preferred to remain as they were, especially at Pontarlier, all the Bernardines, Annonciades, and Ursulines; at Besançon, all the Carmelites, the Visitandines, the Annonciades, the Clarisses, the Sisters of Refuge, the Nuns of the Saint-Esprit and, save one, all the Benedictine Nuns.]
2246 (return) [ "Archives Nationales." Papers of the Ecclesiastical Committee, passim.—Suzay, I. 51.—Statistics of France for 1866.]
2247 (return) [ In 1993 this number has once more fallen, and continues to fall, to 55 900. "Quid", 1996 page 623. (SR.)]
2248 (return) [ Felix Rocquain, "La France aprés le 18 Brumaire." (Reports of the Councillors of State dispatched on this service, passim).]
2249 (return) [ Moniteur, October 24, 1789. (Speech of Dupont de Nemours.) All these speeches, often more fully reported and with various renderings, may be found in "Les Archives Parlementaires," 1st series, vols. VIII. and IX.]
2250 (return) [ Duvergier, decree of June 14–17, 1791. "The annihilation of every corporation of citizens of any one condition or profession being on of the foundation-stones of the French constitution, it is forbidden to re-establish these de-facto under any pretext or form whatever. Citizens of a like condition or profession, such as contractors, shopkeepers, workmen of all classes, and associates in any art whatever shall not, on assembling together, appoint either president, or secretaries, or syndics, discuss or pass resolutions, or frame any regulations in relation to their assumed common interests."]
2251 (return) [ Moniteur, sitting of November 2nd, 1789.]
2252 (return) [ Moniteur, sitting of February 12, 1790. Speeches of Dally d'Agier and Barnave.]
2253 (return) [ Moniteur, sitting of August 10, 1789. Speech by Garat; February 12, 1790, speech by Pétion; October 30, 1789, speech by Thouret.]
2254 (return) [ Moniteur, sitting of November 2, 1789. Speech by Chapelier; October 24, 1789, speech by Garat; October 30, 1789, speech by Mirabeau, and the sitting of August 10, 1789.]
2255 (return) [ Moniteur, sitting of October 23, 1789. Speech by Thouret.]
2256 (return) [ Moniteur, sitting of October 23, 1789. Speech by Treilhard; October 24th, speech by Garat; October 30, speech by Mirabeau.—On the 8th of August, 1789, Al. de Lameth says in the tribune: "When an foundation was set up, it is to the nation, which the grant was given."]
2257 (return) [ Duvergier, laws of August 18, 1792; August 8–14, 1793; July 11, 1794; July 14, 1792; August 24, 1793.]
2258 (return) [ Moniteur, sitting of July 31, 1792. Speech of M. Boistard; the property of the hospitals, at this time was estimated at eight hundred millions.—Already in 1791 (sitting of January 30th) M. de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt said to the Assembly: "Nothing will more readily restore confidence to the poor than to see the nation assuming the right of rendering them assistance." He proposes to decree; accordingly, that all hospitals and places of beneficence be placed under the control of the nation. (Mercure, February 12, 1791.)]
2259 (return) [ Moniteur, sitting of August 10, 1789. Speech by Sieyès.—The figures given here are deduced from the statistics already given in the "Ancient Régime."]
2260 (return) [ Moniteur, v. 571. sitting of September 4, 1790. Report of the Committee on Finances—V. 675, sitting of September 17, 1790. Report by Necker.]
2261 (return) [ A Revolutionary Government promissory bank note. (SR.)]
2262 (return) [ Sauzay, I. 228 (from October 10, 1790, to February 20, 1791). "The total weight of the spoil of the monastic establishments in gold, silver, and plated ware, sent to the Mint amounted to more than 525 kilograms (for the department)."]
2263 (return) [ Duvergier, law of October 8–14.]
2264 (return) [ Moniteur, sitting of June 3,1792. Speech of M. Bernard, in the name of the committee of Public Assistance: "Not a day passes in which we do not receive the saddest news from the departments on the penury of their hospitals."—Mercure de France, December 17, 1791, sitting of December 5. A number of deputies of the Department of the North demand aid for their hospitals and municipalities. Out of 480,000 livres revenue there remains 10,000 to them. "The property of the Communes is mortgaged, and no longer affords them any resources. 280,000 persons are without bread."]
2265 (return) [ Sauzay, I. 252 (December 3, 1790. April 13, 1791).]
2266 (return) [ Moniteur, sitting of June 1, 1790. Speeches by Camus, Treilhard, etc.]
2267 (return) [ But on the assumption that all religion has been invented by human beings for their own comfort or use, then what would be more natural than clever rulers using their power to influence