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In order to confer handsome pensions on the men of science who had benefited mankind by their labours, and who, under the old regime, were poorly rewarded, in 1795, LAKANAL solicited and obtained the establishment of the Indeed, the professors of that science were in want of pecuniary assistance for the purpose of forming pupils.
It must be explained that M. Pelletier, having been entrusted with the organization of one of the great new Lycees the Lycee Lakanal at Sceaux had been deprived of his usual vacation in 1885, and, as a little compensation, he came to spend the Easter of 1886 with us, and took away Mary, who was to stay with him for her yearly music-lessons.
I could quite understand the effect which Lakanal must have produced when he returned from America in 1833 and appeared among his colleagues of the Academic des Sciences Morales et Politiques like a phantom. I could understand Daunou looking upon M. Cousin and M. Guizot as dangerous Jesuits.
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