enier.) "You have made laws--create habits.... You
can apply to the public instruction of the nation the same course that
Rousseau follows in 'Emile.' "]

[Footnote 21105: The words of Bouquier, reporter. (Meeting of Frimaire
22, year II.)]

[Footnote 21106: Buchez et Roux, XXIV, 57 (Plan by Le Peletier
de Saint-Fargeau, read by Robespierre at the Convention, July 13,
1793.)--Ibid., 35. (Draft of a decree by the same hand.)]

[Footnote 21107: Ibid., XXX., 229. ("Institutions," by Saint-Just.)]

[Footnote 21108: Buchez et Roux, XXXI., 261. (Meeting of Nivose 17.)
On the committee presenting the final draft of the decrees on public
instruction the Convention adopts the following article: "All boys who,
on leaving the primary schools of instruction, do not devote themselves
to tillage, will be obliged to learn some science, art or occupation
useful to society. Otherwise, on reaching twenty, they will be deprived
of citizens' rights for ten years, and the same penalty will be laid on
their father, mother, tutor or guardian."]

[Footnote 21109: Decree of Prairial 13, year II.]

[Footnote 21110: Langlois, "Souvenirs de l'Ecole de Mars."]

[Footnote 21111: Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 355. (Report by Robespierre,
Floreal 18, year II.)]

[Footnote 21112: Moniteur, XVIII., 326. (Meeting of the Commune,
Brumaire 11, year II.) the commissary announces that, at Fontainebleau
and other places, "he has established the system of equality in the
prisons and places of confinement, where the rich and the poor partake
of the same food."--Ibid., 210. (Meeting of the Jacobins, Vendemiaire
29, year II. Speech by Laplance on his mission to Gers.) "Priests had
every comfort in their secluded retreats; the sans-culottes in the
prisons slept on straw. The former provided me with mattresses for the
latter."--Ibid., XVIII., 445. (Meeting of the convention, Brumaire
26, year II.) "The Convention decrees that the food of persons kept in
places of confinement shall be simple and the same for all, the rich
paying for the poor."]

[Footnote 21113: Archives Nationales. (AF. II., 37, order of Lequinio,
Saintes, Nivose 1, year II.) "Citizens generally in all communes, are
requested to celebrate the day of the decade by a fraternal banquet
which, served without luxury or display... will render the man bowed
down with fatique insensible to his forlorn condition; which will
fill the soul of the poor and unfortunate with the sentiment of social
equality