ress; but the priest's gown, adopted by the State
that adopts the Church, is still a State uniform. In the other private
establishments, the uniform is that which it imposes, the lay uniform,
belonging to colleges and lycees "under penalty of being closed ";
while, in addition, there is the drum, the demeanor, the habits, ways
and regularity of the barracks. All initiative, all invention, all
diversity, every professional or local adaptation is abolished.[6122]
M. de Lanneau thus wrote[6123]: "I am nothing but a sergeant-major of
languid and mangled classes... to the tap of a drum and under military
colors."

Against the encroachments of this institutional university there is no
longer neither public nor private shelter, since even domestic education
at home, is not respected. In 1808,[6124] "among the old and wealthy
families which are not in the system," Napoleon selects ten from each
department and fifty at Paris of which the sons from sixteen to eighteen
must be compelled to go to Saint-Cyr and, on leaving it, into the army
as second lieutenants.[6125] In 1813, he adds 10,000 more of them, many
of whom are the sons of Conventionalists or Vendeans, who, under the
title of guards of honor, are to form a corps apart and who are at once
trained in the barracks. All the more necessary is the subjection
to this Napoleonic education of the sons of important and refractory
families, everywhere numerous in the annexed countries. Already in
1802, Fourcroy had explained in a report to the legislative corps the
political and social utility of the future University.[6126] Napoleon,
at his discretion, may recruit and select scholars among his recent
subjects; only, it is not in a lycee that he places them, but in a still
more military school, at La Fleche, of which the pupils are all sons of
officers and, so to say, children of the army. Towards the end of 1812,
he orders the Roman prince Patrizzi to send his two sons to this school,
one seventeen years of age and the other thirteen[6127]; and, to be
sure of them, he has them taken from their home and brought there by
gendarmes. Along with these, 90 other Italians of high rank are counted
at La Fleche, the Dorias, the Paliavicinis, the Alfieris, with 120 young
men of the Illyrian provinces, others again furnished by the countries
of the Rhine confederation, in all 360 inmates at 800 per annum. The
parents might often accompany or follow their children and establish
themselves wit