FRANCE. 



Among the married people the percentage of illiterates to the number married was as follow : 



CLASSES Or POPULATION. 



1MJ9. 



M =,!.. 



Both SUM 



logthr. 



1878. 



Department of the Seine s.'.'T 11.68 7.77 2.b9 



Population of the towiw... 20.28 :K.^ 27.08 17.15 29.44 HJ| 



Kurel population 28.11 40.20 84.18 25.00 86.00 80.95 



France 24^49 ~86.63 80.55 _ _21.48 82.98 27.28 



In 1874 the population of Paris was 1,851,- The public debt, according to the budget of 



792, but had fallen to 1,799,250 on January 1, 1876, was as follows (in francs) : 

 1870. 



The budget for 1876, voted by the National DBT< """** 



Assembly, comprised the following sources of Consolidated debt 747,998,86 19,900,206,900 



revenue and branches of expenditures: 



Dim* taxes.... 407^00 Total 



and enregistrement 619,489,8 15 . - 



e of forests 88,ow,680 On January 1, 1873, the new army law of 



ffi^'^2 August 16, 1872, went into operation. Its 



. SUSS first article enacts universal liability to mm- 



ous receipts 97,487,447 tary service. Every Frenchman capable of 



Extraordinary receipt* 66,908,785 bearing arm8 must serve for twenty years, 



Total 2,575,088,682 namely, four years in the standing army, five 



years in the reserve of the standing army, five 

 EXPENDITURES. J^' n ye&TB in the territorial army (Landwehr), and 



SKSSSS'iftta:::::::::::: 832$o 8ix vears in the reserve of the territorial army 



Ministry of the Interior 85,406,084 (Landsturm). 



Ministry of Finances 1,468,449,869 Thn rpprnirino- in 1 874. shnwpfl thftt thft num- 



MiniBtry of Public instruction 98,640,540 



Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce 19,136,500 her ot the young men registered in the military 

 Ministry of Public Works 161105,188 jjgtg a8 becoming twenty years old in 1873 



B5SSSKr::::::::;'::::ri J (" cla88 of 1873 "> was 296 ' 504 - In addition 



Administration ot colonies f to these .there were 21,022 properly belonging 



General civil government of Algiers. . . 26,808,681 ^ ^ clagg rf IQ ^ Qf thege numbers there 



Total 2,570,505,518 were : 



CUM of Cl of 

 1873. 187J. 



1. Declared fit for service 162,425 6,797 



2. Exempted on account of family relations (eldest son of a widow, etc.) 42,988 



8. Exempted partly, or conditionally, on account of their calling (priests, teachers, etc.) 26,705 



4. Reserved for sanitary and other services 27,427 -'.^-0 



6. Put back for one year 21,856 \7ii! 



6. Rejected on account of bodily infirmities 26,659 2,182 



Totals... 296,604 81,022 



Of the men declared fit for service, 6,056 

 were assigned to the navy for a service of five 

 years. The remaining 146,309 men of the class 

 of 1873, and the 6,797 of the class of 1872, 

 were divided into two sections: 



ClM of Clu> *f Total. 

 1873. 187. 



1. For five years' service in the stnnd- 



Inp ariiiy (class of 1872 only four 



years)... 89,080 8,942 83,972 



2. Embracing all those who may be 



furlnuphed after a service from 



six to twelve months 67,889 2,855 60,194 



As a small number of young men are always 

 exempted after having been declared fit for 

 service, the number really entering the army 

 may be estimated at about 165,000. The num- 

 ber of young men who, in accordance with the 

 law of 1872, were allowed to enlist as volun- 

 teers for one year, either as graduates of edu- 

 cational institutions of a higher grade, or on 



account of having passed the examination pre- 

 scribed by law, was 13,314. 



By a law of July 24, 1873, on the reorgani- 

 zation of the army, France is divided into 

 eighteen districts, each of which is occupied 

 by an army corps. One army corps, moreover, 

 is organized in Algeria. Each of the eighteen 

 army corps consists of two divisions of infan- 

 try, one brigade of cavalry, one brigade of ar- 

 tillery, one battalion of engineers, one squad- 

 ron of the train, a general staff, and the subor- 

 dinate staffs. The composition of the army, 

 in time of peace, will be as follows: 



Infantry (156 regimente, 606 battalions, 8,446 com- 

 panies) 981 ,*H 



Cavalry S-1T 



Artillery W.881 



Knpineers 10,960 



Tmln ,8W 



Staff 26.407 



Gendarmes 27.014 



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