he "Ecole Alsacienne," the "Ecole
libre des Sciences Politiques." Competent jurists recommend the founders
of a private school to organize it under the form of a commercial
association, with profit for its aim and not the public good. If the
founders of the school wish to maintain the free management of it they
must avoid declaring it "of public utility."]

[Footnote 6341: The "Ecole Alsacienne" has been supported for some years
mainly by a subsidy of 40,000 francs allotted by the State. This year
the State furnishes, "Monge" and "Sainte-Barbe" with subsidies of
130,000 and 150,000 francs, without which they would become bankrupt and
close their doors. The State probably thus supports them so as to have
a field of pedagogic experiences alongside of its lycees, or to prevent
their being bought by some Catholic corporation.]

[Footnote 6342: Even when the masters are conciliatory or reserved
the two institutions face each other and the pupils are aware of the
antagonism; hence, they turn a cold shoulder to the pupils, education
and ideas of the rival institution. In 1852, and on four circular
journeys from 1863 to 1866, I was able to observe these sentiments which
are now very manifest.]

[Footnote 6343: The period of the annual school examinations in
France.--Tr.]

[Footnote 6344: This word means something more than an ordinary
"boarding-school," as the reader will see by the text, and is therefore
retained as untranslatable.--Tr.]

[Footnote 6345: Expositione universelle of 1889, "Rapport du jury,"
group II., 1st part, P.492.--Documents collected in the bureaus of
public instruction for 1887. (To the internes here enumerated must
be added those of private secular establishments, 8958 out of 20,174
pupils.)--Breal, "Excursions pedagogiques," pp.293, 298.]

[Footnote 6346: All these figures are today in 1998, 100 years later,
no longer valid, they are only included in order to understand Taine's
insights into human nature and education in general. In 1994-5 there
were, in the State lycees and colleges over 4 millions students and
only those whose parents live too far from the schools, or some 9%, are
boarders. (SR.)]

[Footnote 6347: Today, in 1998, the number of pupils living on French
school premises amount to approximatively 10%, mostly because the
parents live too far away from the school. (SR.)]

[Footnote 6348: Breal, ibid., pp. 10, 13. Id., "Quelques mots sur
l'instruction publique," p. 286. "The internat