" -- Wherever the
number of the population is filled up it is through the infantile and
feminine increase. Nearly all the prefects and council-generals state
that precocious marriages have multiplied to excess through
conscription. - Dufort de Cheverney, "M?moires," September 1st, 1800.
" The conscription having spared the married, all the young men
married at the age of sixteen. The number of children in the commune
is double and triple what it was formerly."
[130] Sauzay, X., 471. (Speech by Representative Biot, Aug.29, 1799.)
[131] Albert Babeau, II., 466. (Letter of Milany, July 1, 1798, and
report by Pout, Messidor, year VI.)
[132] Schmidt, III., 374. (Reports on the situation of the department
of the Seine, Ventose, year VII.) - Dufort de Cheverney, "M?moires,"
October 22, 1799. "The column of militia sets out to-day; there are
no more than thirty persons in it, and these again are all paid or not
paid clerks, attach?s of the Republic, all these belonging to the
department, to the director of domains, in fine, all the bureaus."
[133] Schmidt, III., 374. (Reports on the situation of the department
of the Seine, Ventose, year VII.) - Dufort de Cheverney, "M?moires,"
October 22, 1799.
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