FRANCE. 
and.zBc8, eeports, that=an cena of eats hundred 
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eight Howland pound fterling. 
ruin be eyond the poflibility of repair; but the 
proper curation would haye paid 25 per cent. on a e 
- chale mo re is no law eee! of ufury in the 
- code Napoleon ; ; the money market, hke that of all other 
commodities, 3 is le eft to find its own lev 
it although the food, drefs, and accommodiitions of the 
hada of France, have not been improved fince - re- 
_volution, their individual happinefs does not appear to have 
‘been materially impaired. Sunday is flill a day of fott ivity 
ai fn) ing and dance, and frequent the 
of painting, - flatuary, ace Cure, 
mufic, and pes are held in ee ake wae and foftered 
vith articular care, of oe rincipal towns 0: 
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-thoufand paintings, each 0 £ which would be deemed a matfter- 
iece In a private individual, The moft emi- 
nent living painters ‘of in ance are 
“Mincent, Greuze, Gérard, Girodet 
“Ménageot, Taunay, &c. The moft eminent ftatuaries, Pajore, 
Moitte, Julien, Roland, Houdon, Dejoux, Foucou, Chaudet, 
. Stouf, Boichot, &c. The beft French architects are David 
Led oy, Clerifeau Gondouin, who built the Ecole de Chi- 
-rurgie at Paris, algrin, Le Grand, Molinos, Raymon nd, 
Percier, the. younger Moreau, Ie Doux, Brongniard, &c. 
The moft eminent mufical compofers in France-are Grét 
Monfi c, Méhul, c, Le Sueur, 
reine Catel i 
one endo "the year to the 
e principal arufement ae which all the dais of Fr enchs. 
m equally 
places for pleafure ped ney ange 
vet perfons o ery firit ie of “for 
moft renow nied miner al ane ‘of France are thofe oF Bag 
Latin. Its 
oér 
he French langu seis ded the 
eady Pi larity oe its conitruction. 
rincipal ore as the f 
fev en: Fre oetr 
that acc ae extre glifh, Ger nd 
Italians, whofe poets, by the boldnefsof their inverfions fet 
as it were.a language of their own, only in the be egin« 
ning of the 7th eal that the Rieu pa re to write 
with elegance: Th e merit pe the literary works produced i in 
French in the: r reign of © XIV. is generally acknow- 
dged, ‘and - though t the prefent be more > particiilarly the dge 
of: feience, France has ye men: in the depart- 
ment of bee belles lettres, fuch as roa Brun, Ber- 
nardin. t.: Pier. Sy Cénie, olin d’_ 
e, Parny 
Haveole Andrieux, Desfaucherets, a Lan 
card, Anguetil, Ségur . and it.is = very long 
pave has left her Voltaire, Route, Buffon, d’Alem- 
x 
‘books p 
But 
bert, La Harpe, Mar — Boufflers, Favre @? be aa 
oucher, Condorcet, le ay ar ae number of ‘new 
ublifhed aimually i in Er ance is fro 200) 
ut. ee is fearcely a town of- 15 or pee jahabiants 
which has not a literary fociety, and the. for royal - 
ieeaeye at Paris have been replaced by a rational init 
(See P ARIS.) ei ublic libraries of France are alfo 
numerous and important. The national library . “Paris 
alone ened in at beginning of 1807, 3c0,000 plies 
cooks, 7o,oco manufcripts, 200,ccO engravings, 40,00 
copper medals, 30,c00 See medals, 30,coo lilver medals, 
and many ee curiolities 
a great many valuable remains of antiquity, 
which are detailed under the head of each department. There 
is in particular a moit interefting colleétion of monuments at 
Paris, called le Mufée des Antiques. See Panis. 
The confequence: the revolution were very fatal to 
Se igion and ublic eduction: 3 but the former is regaining 
falutary influence on the principles and ations of the 
‘ foe and the latter has recently been provided for by the 
eftablifhment of an imperial univerfity at Paris, which 1s ex~ 
elufively charged with the public inftruéticn, and controls 
every {chocl and feminary of education in theempire. It is 
€ ives 
courts of appeal in France. 
each academy, in the stiles order: 1. Univ ae called 
i facultés; 2. Lyceum 3. Colleges, es grammar 
{chools ; 4. Inftitutions, or eee ie 3 5 Bez ag 
alled pentionats ; and, 6. ‘The se or cag any 8. The 
univérfities are ofed o e faculties, vis. theclo 
jurifprudence, phytic, ier eee and phyfical since, 
ae literature. e poe ntanes, now comte de Fon 
rand afte r of the imperial ue Lamuea 
There 
and oe three years, are 
‘paffed over, ae to _ particular inclina» 
a and talents, tothe Ecoles des Ponts et Chauffées, sete 
tillerie de sek @’ Artillerie dela Monae desCé i i 
des Mines s Ingénieu urs de Vaifleau, &c. befides w hich 
there are ns military colleges at Fontainbleau and Saint 
Cyr. 
In the year 1754, the-marquis de.Mirabeau, father of the 
celebrated count of that name, rated the whole ee of 
France at 18 millions 
In 1772 the abbé d’Expilly eftimated it-at 22,140,357 in- 
dividuals, and nearly at the fame epoch the: celebrated Buffon 
ftatedit at 21,672,777. In 178 5 ‘Mr. Neckar made it amount 
to 24,676,c0o 
In the year 1789 Mr, Bonvallet Defbrolies rated:the pops 
lation of France at 27,9575267> and in It ommitteé 
of the National * Affe mbly, from a more ie calculation, 
— it to be 26,363,074. 
° r. Prony madé the population -of ‘Frarice, in- 
dane Cor fica and. the conquered «countries, amount to 
31,123,218, viz 
26,048,254. on ake territories of aiicient. ac, 
325 11,055 in: bs mtat ‘Venaiflin, Savoye, -Nice, Po-: 
ent: oo the Auftrian Netherlands, 
ks 
: 63909 | ¢ 4 tect +t A “th e Rhineand : 
. a Mofelle. | 
In 1799, Mr. ‘Depere, in his Report to dis Council of Five 
Hundred, ftated i it at 33,501,694. . he 
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