They will be formed into companies of sixty; six
companies make a battalion; the children of a district form a legion;
they will assemble annually at the district town, encamp there and
drill in infantry tactics, in arenas specially provided for the
purpose; they will also learn cavalry maneuvers and every other
species of military evolution. In harvest time they are to be
distributed amongst the harvesters." After sixteen, "they enter the
crafts," with some farmer, artisan, merchant or manufacturer, who
becomes their titular "instructor," and with whom they are bound to
remain up to the age of twenty-one, "under the penalty of being
deprived for life of a citizen's rights.[108] . . . All children
will dress alike up to sixteen years of age; from twenty-one to
twenty-five, they will dress as soldiers, if they are not in the
magistracy." - Already we show the effects of the theory by one
striking example; we founded the "Ecole de Mars;"[109] we select out
of each district six boys from sixteen to seventeen and a half years
old "among the children of sans-culottes;" we summon them to Paris,
"to receive there, through a revolutionary education, whatever belongs
to the knowledge and habits of a republican soldier.
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