"
(Gustave Flaubert, family souvenirs.)]

[Footnote 2195: Buchez et Roux, XXXI., 415. (Report by Fabre
d'Eglantine, October 6, 1793.)--(Gregoire, "Memoires," I., 341.) "The
new calendar was invented by Romme in order to get rid of Sunday. This
was his object; he admitted it to me."]

[Footnote 2196: Ibid., XXXII., 274. (Report by Robespierre, Floreal
18, year II.) "National Festivals form an essential part of public
education.... A system of national festivals is the most powerful means
of regeneration."]

[Footnote 2197: Ibid., XXXVIII., 335. Marat's heart, placed on a
table in the Cordeliers Club, was an object of religious
reverence.--(Gregoire, "Memoires," I., 341.) "In some schools the
pupils were obliged to make the sign of the cross at the names of Marat,
Lazowski, etc."]

[Footnote 2198: Comte de Martel, "Etude sur Fouche," 137. Fete at
Nevers, on the inaguration of a bust of Brutus.--Ibid., 222, civic
festival at Nevers in honor of valor and morals.--Dauban, "Paris en
1794." Programme of the fete of the supreme Being at Sceaux.]

[Footnote 2199: An expression by Rabaut Saint-Etienne.]

[Footnote 21100: Ibid., XXXII., 373 (Report by Robespierre, Floreal 15,
year II.)--Danton had expressed precisely the same opinion, supported by
the same arguments, at the meeting of Frimaire 22, year II. (Moniteur,
XVIII, 654.) "Children first belong to the Republic before belonging
to their parents. Who will assure me that these children, inspired by
parental egoism, will not become dangerous to the Republic? What do we
care for the ideas of an individual alongside of national ideas?... Who
among us does not know the danger of this constant isolation? It is in
the national schools that the child must suck republican milk! .... The
Republic is one and indivisible. Public instruction must likewise relate
to this center of unity."]

[Footnote 21101: Decree of Vendemaire 30 and Brumaire 7, year II.--Cf.
Sauzay, VI., 252, on the application of this decree in the provinces.]

[Footnote 21102: Albert Duruy, 2L 'Instruction publique et la
Revolution,2 164, to 172' (extracts from various republican
spelling-books and catechisms).--Decree of Frimaire 29, year II.,
section I., art. I, 83; section II., art. 2; section III., arts. 6 and
9.]

[Footnote 21103: Moniteur, XVIII., 653. (Meeting of Frimaire 22, speech
by Bouquir, reporter.)]

[Footnote 21104: Moniteur, XVIII., 351-359. (Meeting of Brumaire 15,
year II., report by Ch