("Analyse des proc?s-verbaux des Conseils-Generaux de
l'an XI." In four volumes.) Out of 58 which reply, 37 state that the
population with them has diminished; 12, that it has increased; 9,
that it remains stationary. Of the 22 others, 13 attribute the
maintenance or increase of population, at least for the most part, to
the multiplication of early marriages in order to avoid conscription
and to the large number of natural children. - Consequently, the
average rate of population is kept up not through preserving life, but
through the substitution of new lives for the old ones that are
sacrificed. Bordeaux, nevertheless, lost one-tenth of its population,
Angers one-eighth, Pau one-seventh, Chambery one-fourth, Rennes one-
third. In the departments where the civil-war was carried on,
Argenton-Ch?teau lost two-thirds of its population, Bressuire fell
from 3,000 to 630 inhabitants; Lyons, after the siege, fell from a
population of 140,000 thousand to 80,000. ("Analyse des proc?s-
verbaux des Conseils-Generaux" and Statistiques des Prefets.")
[152] Lareveill?re-Lepeaux, "M?moires. " I, 248. (He belongs to the
Committee and is an eye-witness.)
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