SCIENTIFIC NOBLEMEN IN FRANCE. 



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Grand Croix 

 Grand officier 

 Commandeur 

 Officier 

 Chevalier 



No. of Members of the 

 Institute of France 

 who belong to the 

 Legion of Honour. 



- 3 



- 3 



- 4 



- 17 



- 40 



Total No. of each 

 Class of the Le- 

 gion of Honour. 



80 



160 



400 



2000 



not limited. 



67 



Here then we have no less than sixty-seven members 

 out of seventy-Jive 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. 



