" (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,
pr?fet, 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 Ferri?re.) - "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, pr?fet.) - 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.
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