" This complement
shall be 300 boarders per lyc?e; there are to be "80 lyc?es in full
operation "during the year 1812, and 100 in the course of the year
1813, so that, at this last date, the total of the complement
demanded, without counting that of the colleges, amounts to 30,000
boarding-scholars. Such is the enormous levy of the State on the crop
of boarding-school pupils. It evidently seizes the entire crop in
advance; private establishments, after it, can only glean, and through
tolerance. In reality, the decree forbids them to receive boarding-
scholars; henceforth, the University will have the monopoly of them.
The proceedings against the small seminaries, more energetic
competitors, are still more vigorous. "There shall be but one
secondary ecclesiastical school in each department; the Grand-Master
will designate those that are to be maintained; the others are to be
closed. None of them shall be in the country. All those not situated
in a town provided with a lyc?e or with a college shall be closed.
All the buildings and furniture belonging to the ecclesiastic schools
not retained shall be seized and confiscated for the benefit of the
University.
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