THE BIRTH-RATE IN FRANCE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1495, 18 July 1912, Page 7

THE BIRTH-RATE IN FRANCE.

' According lo recent. fipnrcs. the txcip.«« *'! * of deaths over births ill France lor the year 191! leached 55.000. . Jiifthtl.v-enough , this emitiuued ■decrease in pnpulalioii hasr aroused the alarm of. I'voiU'h ■ social pjlil- . osophers, ami several of ,thorn have recent- -i ; •ly advocated vigorous -mcuSnres Sigfunst-:-•cliiWiesji' marriages. • -The .-KeimWie. fl«r--in? its earliest!' dnys! .was -spneerned with■ tiiis; problem. •11: wa? seriously proposed m 1801 tiiniv- t'ho' .French nationshould bn divided into Ave classes. In the first 'were lo be parents of ten children, who •were, to we nr. a, tricolour, ribbon in their t \ hats. On t]ie other hand, bachelors were • practically., deprived of 'any, right*, they, possessed, ,'l'hcy' wore to Jiavn no power to dispose of their prn|ierly,J;ii)(l .no right' to attend public assemblies,while! W ... . crown their disgrace, they woro;.!o fbn out-." ' .wortlly branded by a 1 jriv'en Mid 'yellow. cockade., . . -V" V Nor was this attempt to increase the *- ' birlh-rjite unique. 'Aijniii. in' 1S(lS a 1 "motion "-wok brought: forward to .heap taxes',, „ linon celibates, deprive tliem cf the right - ■ of collaU'Vnl. Mtcces«ioii,'''" take" their' income from t.hem, and apply it to .ili'e needs,"of the, StiiW! .'for.bid ,'Jliw'i tlio „ exercise of. any public iinictiolis, and' i ,fni- i .''"; at ly— t lie- social .reformers .we're. d'efei'tuiiied " ■to .COtn 1 "';' ' pel: t-lieni ~t<Twear-nil- Official dress. "wild- - ; 'beast :*colpiir;''." l'W niepslU'ri; could' he liiure'.stringent" tliaii.'Uiwj fruits.'of the liepubljc.., A century' ft'nVl' .hill' '[liffore tlftt,. ■hotv^veriV Uif;\nt'f)blw» •', "Jitwl eerUiiily consi«srSJioii' ** of the fti'Md Monilrcjlti', -Turns' XIV.'TIM I ' ..is. oxlant'' if euri'ou* VdieT'of I/mfs-'aliit'd•' - '■ ,a't 'ftiiiTnay" j.nJ.ltiiy,-T(;(ir;.' : b,v- wllltlV.tjio';;"" Kiiib .'pybimiljjatei" a sj-sfein tiF 'encoßras- 1 ins hil'ths--"by W fathers of lavs'" lamiliei. : -l'\i(hei's if tcn "' children were lo be exeni'pt from all liix'C's whatsoever if they lieloivred to tlie'bour'-- ' < ne<li«ie; while, if 111 fv l>elonf;edi lo *( h rt ---' - * noble chiss liii'.v wen In-reh;ivt'-'y>iei)'f.?a"" , „- of ono thousand founds a year, 1 n-■ " • latter case parent's <if' fwtdve v ''i'hildri < n '' ' lycre"to' receive' two thousand •'p'oim<l«s'» ll * ! ".' is probable. ; however, .'Hluit t'lie IVeVisiph's: ~ w:crc -never paid. - i« • ,