hey may keep their
relationship secret."]

[Footnote 2192: This article of the Jacobin program, like the others,
has its practical result.--"At Paris, in the twenty-seven months after
the promulgation of the law of September, 1792, the courts granted five
thousand nine hundred and ninety-four divorces, and in year VI, the
number of divorces exceeded the marriages." (Glasson, le Mariage civil
et le Divorce, 51.)--"The number of foundlings which, in 1790, in
France, did not exceed twenty-three thousand, is now (year X.) more than
sixty-three thousand. "Statistique de la Sarthe," by Auvray, prefect,
year, X.)--In the Lot-et-Garonne (Statistique, by Peyre, prefet, year X
), more than fifteen hundred foundlings are counted: "this extraordinary
number increased during the Revolution through the too easy admission
of foundlings into the asylums, through the temporary sojourning of
soldiers in their homes, through the disturbance of every moral and
religious principle."--"It is not rare to find children of thirteen and
fourteen talking and acting in a way that would have formerly disgraced
a young man of twenty." (Moselle, Analyse, by Ferriere.)--"The children
of workmen are idle and insubordinate; some indulge in the most shameful
conduct against their parents;" others try stealing and use the coarsest
language." (Meurthe, Statistique, by Marquis, prefet.)--Cf. Anne
Plumptre (A Narrative of three years' residence in France from 1802 to
1805, I. 436). "You would not believe it, Madame, said a gardener to her
at Nimes, that during the Revolution we dared not scold our children
for their faults. Those who called themselves patriots regarded it as
against the fundamental principles of liberty to correct children. This
made them so unruly that, very often, when a parent presumed to scold
its child the latter would tell him to mind his business, adding, 'we
are free and equal, the Republic is our only father and mother; if you
are not satisfied, I am. Go where you like it better.' Children are
still saucy. It will take a good many years to bring them back to
minding.']

[Footnote 2193: Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 364 (Report by Robespierre,
Floreal 8, year II.)]

[Footnote 2194: Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 385--(Address of a Jacobin
deputation to the Convention, Floreal 27, year II.)--At Bayeux, the
young girl who represented Liberty, had the following inscription on
her breast or back: "Do not make of me an instrument of licentiousness.