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nearly eighteen days. It was not until the 15th of March that 
our pupils were able to quit the honourable post which had been 
assigned them at the Hotel-de-Ville, to return to their studies. 
This compulsory vacation has been too importantly employed for 
us to feel regret at it ; even were it not that the high sense they 
have manifested of the novel duties in which they have been en- 
gaged has furnished us with a sure guarantee of their making up 
for lost time, by repairing with redoubled diligence to their 
studies, 
“ The Alfort pupils have already, in the most honourable manner, 
reaped the fruits of their conduct. The Provisional Government, 
through M. Arago, has expressed to them their congratulations on 
the zeal and devotion they displayed during the trying days which 
followed the revolution, and, in remuneration for their esteemed 
services, has promised them un drapeau d’honneur, which will be 
preserved at the College as a trophy for future generations. 
“ And besides, M. Bethmont, Minister of Agriculture and Trade, 
has come to preside in person at the re-opening of the Session ; 
and in warm terms has thanked the pupils, in the name of the 
government, for what they had done for the service of the re- 
public; at the same time that he has impressed upon them the 
necessity of their returning to their studies with redoubled zeal 
and diligence, a duty rendered the more imperative from the recent 
revolution calling upon every citizen for more towards his country, 
and which, under the republic, could not be accomplished save 
through efforts and services such as would raise every individual 
in the estimation of those around him, and render him highly de- 
serving of his country. 
“ Lastly, that nothing might be wanted on the part of the pupils 
to fill their measure of satisfaction, their comrades at the other 
schools, those of Lyons and Toulouse, have been eager in uniting 
their laudatory tributes with those already offered, and have ad- 
dressed to them brotherly letters of congratulation such as are far 
from being accounted the least of their reward.” 
And yet the same chivalrous or rather republican spirit does not 
seem to have animated the breasts of the pupils of the Toulouse 
School as inspired those at Alfort; for, at Toulouse, says M. 
Bouley, “ if we are rightly informed, the pupils, unable or un- 
willing to comprehend the grave obligations imposed upon them 
by recent events, have viewed the grand revolution but as the 
sordid occasion for emitting pitiful and base recriminations against 
their director and professors. Forgetting that they were wholly 
indebted to the republic for their agitation and power, they have 
taken advantage of the preponderance the revolutionary move- 
ments have thrown into the hands of the people to demand of the 
