SCIENTIFIC NOBLEMEN IN FRANCE. 409 
No. of Members of the 
: Total No. of each 
Institute of France Giiae of the lice 
who belong to the : h 
Legion of Honour. gion of Honour. 
Grand Croix - ae ge 80 
Grand officier - at ey 160 
Commandeur - - 4 400 
Officier - - 17 2000 
Chevalier - - 40 not limited. 
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Here then we have no less than sixty-seven members 
out of seventy-five upon whom the government have 
thought fit to bestow titles of distinction. Our 
Royal Society, which corresponds only to the French 
Institute in being the best of its kind in Great 
Britain, contains 685 members, among whom there 
are only two or three Hanoverian knights, who have 
very recently been so created, in consequence of 
their scientific attainments.* Next, as to the nobility 
belonging to the Institute, the greater number of 
whom, be it remembered, are men of science, have 
contributed to its annals, and have been rewarded 
with these titles in consequence. 
Dukes, 2. Counts, 4. Barons, 14. 
Marquis, 1. Viscounts, 2. 
making a total of twenty-three, five of whom are 
peers of France. Our list of the Royal Society can 
probably show an equal, if not a superior number of 
* Titles which are the reward of members eminent only 
in the medical profession do not, of course, bear upon the 
present question. 
