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Jccmnt of Tournavt 



[Jan. I, 



with the grcafcft a£\!vity. The orders 

 for it exceed the number of carpets their 

 fhops can lupply. 



Tournay lia^ preferved its college ard 

 its public library. The library was that 

 of the chapter of the cathedral. The en- 

 tranre to it is through the church, which 

 has been fadly laid wafle. The iiHrary- 

 room is a fine one ; and though it has 

 been flripped of its inoft valuable books, 

 fome excellent books and manufcripis are 

 preferved in it. Befides the books col- 

 leiSled together in this libiary, there re- 

 mains a confiderablc depofit in the town- 

 hall, where among many books of no va- 

 lue there is yet room to glean. I have 

 iten there a fine Laffantius, printed at 

 Venice 19th March, 14-78. 



Under the library, inafn:ia!l building, 

 which rifes into a wing, there are many 

 looms, formerly defigncd for the retreat of 

 o'cl priefts, named by tlie cii.ipter, and to 

 whcfe luprort many foundations contri- 

 buted. They arc conveited into a houfe 

 ♦or the recej^tion cf aged and infirm citi- 

 ze s, who have fallen into misfortunes. — 

 The number is thirty. They furn'fli 

 their own apartments, and clothe them- 

 iVli'es. Each has a chamber and a fitijng- 

 voom to himfelf. They take their mtal* 

 together. 



In other quarters of the town there are 

 lioufts for the reception of the fick, the 

 aged, and orphans, without incntioning 

 houles luppoited by the produce of parti- 

 cular foundations. 



The? hofpital for the fick has forty- 

 eight b(d>, fuch as I have dclrribed as 

 iilcd at Moiis^ with fome of a new foim. 

 It is under the diieflion of three old leli- 

 gious holpitallcrs. The daily expence of 

 the lick is eftimated at twenty- five fous, 

 when bread is not very dear. It is proper 

 to reniaik en the article of the bre.id 

 wliich is eaten in all the hofpitals of the 

 United Departments, that no white- bread, 

 fuch as is given in the hofpitals at Paris, 

 )» allowed, nor even what we call brown. 

 It is alinoff black, oiten made of rye 

 only, without leparating the bran from ihe 

 flour, except that for the lick they lonie- 

 times buy white-bi ead. But we mulf ob- 

 Icrve allii, that the lame bread, though 

 i« a fmall quantity, is eaten in the belt 

 houles in the town. To fti angers they 

 ierve up white bread, or bread of Paris j 

 and they diftover a Pariilan by the quan- 

 tity (jf •iiread which he tats, an enormous 

 deal croipared with what tliey confume in 

 file country. 



The hofpital for the aged is an afyluni 

 for the old of eith;r fex, to iht; nunibei of 



an hundred. Since the adminiftratlve 

 commiffion eftablifhed by the law of Ven- 

 demiaire in the fifth year, none are ad- 

 mitted bcfoie the age of feventy- two. The 

 commiffion found that the nol'pital had 

 been encumbered by the protegees of the 

 former trultees. They eat in a common- 

 hall. Twice a-weck meat is allowed.— 

 The daily expence is eftimated at from 

 thirty to forty fous. The labour is volun- 

 tary, and the profit is given to him who 

 works. Some of the men go into the town 

 to labour. 



The hofpital for orphans, where I have 

 feen two hundred and fcrty-tight young 

 gills, had been a long time ill managed, 

 through a bad econo:ny. A fenfible wo- 

 man, chofen by the adminiitrative com- 

 mdfion, has eftabhdied order in it. There 

 remains no trace of tlie old llate of things 

 but in the want of linen : fome beds are 

 entirely without flieets ; others have one 

 Iheet only under the coverlid, themattrals 

 remaining bare. T«o lie in a bed. Their 

 fhifis are worn a fortnight. Their diet 

 confilfs of a little meat twice in a week ; 

 on other days, of bread and water, and 

 in the evening bread and butter. They 

 reckon thedaily experce of the children at 

 eight ibiis. There is an economic fur- 

 nace in the hofpital, and they Ibmetimes 

 diftribute from it into the town Rumford's 

 foup. The building, which was an old 

 feminary, is large and well difpofed. 



The adiiiniftrative commifTion eftablifh- 

 ed, in the month Floreal, in the tenth 

 year, an hofpital for orphan-boys, on the 

 lame footing as that for girls. 1 have 

 feen in it to the nuinber ot fixty one.— 

 The biggtil go to labour in the town. — 

 Deftrted children are received into the 

 lame hofpital. They have a Jiff of nurfes 

 in the country, who cfTer themfclves for 

 the children at the breaft, to whom they 

 are fent as foon as they are brought tj the 

 hofpital, and they remain in the country 

 till they can be received into it. The 

 number of the children nurfed in the coun- 

 try amount to three hundred. 



An hofpital for health is deftined for the 

 reception of fick and wounded females. — 

 it was a convent fur girls, to which the 

 infirmary was attached. Even to this day 

 there are more religious than fick in it. 



I law in a iKuie I'or lunatics nine men 

 ard five women in two lepaiate fides of it. 

 Molt of them were old and infirm. The 

 yards aie very fmall ; and, except the 

 time allowed for walking, the lunatics are 

 (liL't up, fyme on the ground-floor, and 

 others on the firii (\cry j but this is a mere 

 garret. The cell* are fiiglr.ful j thole on 



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