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in a wide valley, under a mild and serene sky, in the region 
of the vine, the mulberry and the maize, on the borders of a 
superb river; it is called the garden of France; it is Tou- 
raine. : 
Look, on the contrary, at the foot of the Pyrenees, the 
country of Henry the Great, Bearn ; it contains in its 
schools the 15th of the total population ; and it is in the vi- 
cinity of this fine country, formerly called the garden of the 
Hesperides, the garden of the West, that we find the country 
whose deep colouring, proportioned to its present ignorance, 
relieves me from the necessity of pronouncing its name. 
In drawing the narrow dark line, which you observe, from 
Geneva to Saint Malo, we separate the north from the south 
of France. 
On the north are thirty-two departments, and thirteen 
millions of inhabitants; on the south fifty-four departments, 
and eighteen millions of inhabitants. 
he thirteen millions of the north, send to school 740,846 
young people; the 18 millions of the south send to school 
but 375,931 pupils. 
t us now observe some of the remarkable consequences 
127,634,765 francs of the national impost, for a surface of 
18,692,191 hectares ; while the fifty-four departments of the 
fourth, pay only 125,412,969 francs, for a surface of 
34,841,235 hectares. 
- Thus, for a million of hectares, the public treasury receives 
from the enlightened portion of France, 6,820,000 francs, 
and from the dark portion, 3,599,700. 
The superiority of the public revenue furnished by the en- 
lightened portion of the kingdom, is also particularly obvious 
in the patent tax, which is levied at an equal rate throughout 
the kingdom. 
The thirty-two departments of the north close a patent ac- 
count with the public treasury of 15,274,456 francs, and the 
fifty-four southern departments, only 9,623,733 francs. 
Hence, favoured by superior industry and information, a 
million of Frenchmen on the north side of the line, pay for ° 
the patents of their arts 1,1 74,958 francs, and a mil an on 
the south only 534,662 francs. 
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