) - Ibid., 35.
(Draft of a decree by the same hand.)
[107] Ibid., XXX., 229. ("Institutions," by Saint-Just.)
[108] 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."
[109] Decree of Prairial 13, year II.
[110] Langlois, "Souvenirs de l'Ecole de Mars."
[111] Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 355. (Report by Robespierre, Flor?al
18, year II.)
[112] 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, Vend?miaire 29, year
II. Speech by Laplance on his mission to Gers.
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