[Footnote 5253: "Moniteur," session of March 14 1865. (Speech of Cardinal de Bonnechose.) "What would we do without our monks, Jesuits, Dominicans, Carmelites, etc., to preach at Advent and during Lent, and act as missionaries in the country? The (parochial) clergy is not numerous enough to do this daily work."]
[Footnote 5254: Prælectiones juris canonici, II., 305 and following pages.]
[Footnote 5255: "La Charité à Nancy," by Abbé Girard, 1890, I. vol.--"La Charité à Angers," by Léon Cosnier, 1890, 2 vols.--"Manuel des oeuvres et institutions charitable à Paris," by Lacour, I vol.--"Les Congrégations religieuses en France," by Émile Keller, 1880, 1 vol,]
[Footnote 5256: "Vie de Mgr. Dupanloup," I., 506 (1853). "More than one hundred free ecclesiastical establishments for secondary education have been founded since the law of 1850."--"Statistique de l'enseignement secondaire." In 1865, there were 276 free ecclesiastical schools for secondary instruction with 34,897 pupils, of which 23.549 were boarders and 11,348 day-scholars. In 1876, there were 390 with 46,816 pupils, of which 33,092 were boarders and 13,724 day-scholars.]
[Footnote 5257: "La Charité à Nancy," by Abbé Girard, p.87.--"Vie du Cardinal Mathieu," by Mgr. Besson, 2 vols.]
[Footnote 5259: Cf., in the above-mentioned biographies, the public and political discourses of the leading prelates, especially those of M. Mathieu (of Besançon), M. Dupanloup (of Orleans), Mgr. de Bonnechose (of Rouen), and particularly Mgr. Pie (of Poitiers).]
[Footnote 5260: A fact told me by a lady, an eye-witness. In the seventeenth century it is probable that Fénelon or Bossuet would have regarded such a response as extravagant and even sacrilegious.]
[Footnote 5261: Imagine the impression this might have had on ambitious men dreaming of establishing their own faithful parties. (SR.)]
[Footnote 5262: Abbé Elie Méric, in the "Correspondant" of January 10, 1890, p. 18.]
[Footnote 5263: "De l'État actuel du clergé en France" (1839), p.248, by the brothers Allignol. Careers of every kind are too crowded; "only the ecclesiastical is in want of subjects; willing youths are the only ones wanted and none are found." This is due, say these authors, to the profession of assistant-priest being too gloomy--eight years of preparatory study five years in the seminary, 800 francs of pay with the risk of losing it any day, poor extras, a life-servitude, no retiring pension, etc.--"Le Grand Péril de L'Église en France," by Abbé Bougaud (4th ed., 1879), pp 2-23.--"Lettre Circulaire" (No. 53) of Mgr. Thiebaut, archbishop of Rouen, 1890, p.618.]