n that of Eure, after a few months, it
is six out of seven; at Lyons, 792 out of 820; (Statistique des Prefets
du Rhone et de l'Eure). At Marseilles, it is '600 out of 618; at Toulon,
101 out of 104; in the average, 19 out of 20. (Rocquam, "Etat de France
au 18e Brumaire," p.33. Report of Francois de Nantes.) At Troyes, out of
164 brought in in year IV., 134 die; out of 147 received in year VII.,
136 die. (Albert Babeau, II., 452.) At Paris, in year IV., out of 3,122
infants received 2,907 perish. (Moniteur, year V., No. 231.)--The sick
perish the same. "At Toulon, only seven pounds of meat are given each
day to eighty patients; I saw in the civil Asylum," says Francois de
Nantes, "a woman who had just undergone a surgical operation to whom
they gave for a restorative a dozen beans on a wooden platter." (Ibid.,
16, 31, and passim, especially for Bordeaux, Caen, Alencon, St.
Lo, etc.)--As to beggars, these are innumerable: in year IX., it is
estimated that there are 3 or 4,000 by department, at least 300,000 in
France. "In the four Brittany departments one can truly say that a third
of the population live at the expense of the other two-thirds, either by
stealing from them or through compelling assistance." (Rocquain, "Report
by Barbe-Marbois," p.93.)]

3rd. In year IX., the Consells-generaux are called upon to ascertain
whether the departments have increased or diminished in population since
1789. ("Analyse des proces-verbaux des Conseils-Generaux de l'an XI." In
four volumes.) Out of 58 which reply, 37 state that the population
with them has diminished; 12, that it has increased; 9, that it remains
stationary. Of the 22 others, 13 attribute the maintenance or increase
of population, at least for the most part, to the multiplication of
early marriages in order to avoid conscription and to the large number
of natural children.--Consequently, the average rate of population is
kept up not through preserving life, but through the substitution of new
lives for the old ones that are sacrificed. Bordeaux, nevertheless,
lost one-tenth of its population, Angers one-eighth, Pau one-seventh,
Chambery one-fourth, Rennes one-third. In the departments where the
civil-war was carried on, Argenton-Chateau lost two-thirds of its
population, Bressuire fell from 3,000 to 630 inhabitants; Lyons,
after the siege, fell from a population of 140,000 thousand to 80,000.
("Analyse des proces-verbaux des Conseils-Generaux" and Statistiques des
Pr