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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...and to be of irreproachable conduct and morality. The other conditions are: 1st, to have lost the sight, or one or more limbs, or to be afflicted with infirmities equivalent to the loss of a limb; 2d, to be at least sixty years of age; at seventy, admission is a right. During their abode at the Hotel, the invalids, in addition to their food and clothing, receive a payment proportionate to their old rank, and their pension is suspended. Each inmate may renounce the privilege of his admission and resume the enjoyment of his pension, as he may also reenter the Hotel after having voluntarily left it. The invalids are organized in divisions; the military service is performed by them exclusively. The number of invalids entertained at the Hotel depends upon the annual credit allowed by the Chambers for that purpose. At present the number is greatly restricted on account of the absence of great wars. Many people share Montesquieu's opinion: "The Hotel des Invalides is the most admirable place on earth. If I had been a prince, I would rather have created that establishment than have won three battles." THE INSTITUTE ERNEST REN AN THE Institute is one of the most glorious creations of the Revolution, and something quite peculiar to France. Many countries have academies that may rival our own in the illustriousness of their members and the importance of their works; France alone has an Institute where all the efforts of the human mind are bound together in a sheaf, where the poet, the philosopher, the historian, the philologist, the critic, the mathematician, the physicist, the astronomer, the naturalist, the economist, the lawyer, the sculptor, the painter and the musician may call themselves brethren. Two ideas absorbed the minds of the simple and great me...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781152032637
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 92
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1152032631
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 181 gr

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