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 PAKIS 77 The population in 1872 was divided according to nationality as follows : NATIONALITY. Males. Females. Total. JBorn in the department of the Seine 307,812 527,028 2,196 19,929 14.696 2,901 1,939 7,284 1,080 17,215 4,107 1,441 6,731 7,538 560 1,686 296 507 105 784 2,499 334,906 504,842 1,836 17,047 16,919 4,589 2,181 8,455 773 15,697 3,645 1.292 2,358 4,867 531 845 176 202 26 742 2,608 642,718 1,081,865 4,082 86,976 81,615 7,490 4,120 15,789 1,808 82,912 7,752 2,733. 8,089 12,400 1,091 2,481 472 709 167 1,526 5,102 Born in other p'rts of France Naturalized foreigners fri 1 Alsatian and Lorrainian im- (_ migrants Persons from Alsace-Lorraine who are German citizens English Scotch, and Irish Americans (North and South America) Germans. Belgians. . Dutch Spaniards Italians. Swiss Russians Poles Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes. Turks, Greeks, Wallachs, &c. Asiatics Other nationalities Nationality unknown. Total 927,224 924,568 1,851,792 In regard to religions belief, the population was divided into 1,760,168 Roman Catholics, 41,672 Protestants (Calvinists 19,423, Luther- ans 12,634, other sects 4,615), 23,434 Jews, 13,905 professing no belief, 1,572 Mohamme- dans, Buddhists, &c., and 11,041 unascertained. Of the total population over 6 years of age (1,704,152), 175,510 (69,911 males and 105,599 females) were unable to read or write, and 47,- 467 (21,812 males and 25,655 females) were un- able to write ; of the former, 135,489 were over 20 years, and of the latter, 28,426. The follow- ing table, taken from the figures of the census of 1872, sho'ws, though very generally, the oc- cupations and professions of the population : PROFESSION OR OCCUPATION. Persons actively engaged. Male. Female. Agriculture (and trades connected with it) Industries and manufactures 2,361 295,211 148,651 45,661 9,076 95,800 51.589 5,041 15,484 4,801 655 197,987 52,207 3,581 6,659 17,219 59,899 10,217 12,265 8,432 Commerce and commercial pursuits Occupations connected with transportation (railways, &c.), with banking, brokerage, and commission Miscellaneous professions* Liberal professions. Persons living exclusively from the income of their capital vithout profession or occupation. . Persons not classified t Persons whose professions are unknown or have not been determined Paris is divided for administrative and polit- ical purposes into 20 arrondissements, each of which is subdivided into four " Quarters." and its administrative officers. The official names and numbers of the arrondissements and quarters are shown below (the arrondisse- ments with Roman, the quarters with Arabic numerals) : I. LOUVRE. 1. St. Germ. TAuxerrois. 2. Halles. 3. Palais Royal. 4. Place Vendome. II. BOURSE. 5. Gaillon. 6. Vivienne. 7. Mail. 8. Bonne Nouvelle. III. TEMPLE. 9. Arts et Metiers. 10. Enfants Rouges. 11. Archives. 12. Ste. Avoie. IV. HOTEL DE VILLE. 18. St. Merry. 14. St. Gervais. 15. Arsenal. 16. Notre Dame. V. PANTHEON. 17. St. Victor. 18. Jardin des Plantes. 19. Val de Grace. 20. Sorbonne. VI. LUXEMBOURG. 21. Monnaie. 22. Odeon. 28. Notre Dame des Champs. 24. St. Germain des Pres. VII. PALAIS BOURBON. 25. St. Thomas d'Aquin. 26. Invalides. 27. ticole Militaire. 28. Gros Caillou. VIII. ELYSEE. 29. Champs ^lysees. 30. Faubourg du Roule. 31. Madeleine. 82. Europe. IX. OPERA. 88. St. Georges. 84. Chaussee d'Antin. 85. Faubourg Montmartre. 86. Rochechouart. X. ENCLOS ST. LAURENT. 87. St. Vincent de Paul 38. Porte St. Denis. 89. Porte St. Martin. 40. Hopital St. Louis. XI. POPINCOURT. 41. Folie Mericourt. 42. St. Ambroise. 43. Roquette. 44. Ste. Marguerite. XII. REUILLY. 45. Bel Air. 46. Picpus. 47. Bercy. 48. Quinze Vingts. XIII. GOBELINS. 49. Salpetriere. 50. Gare. 51. Maison Blanche. 52. Croulebarbe. XIV. OBSERVATOIRE. 53. Mt. Parnasse. 54. Sante. 55. Petit Montrouge. 56. Plaisance. XV. TAUGIRARD. 57. St. Lambert 58. Necker. 59. Grenelle. 60. Javelle. XVI. PASSY. 61. Auteuil. 62. La Muette. 63. Porte Dauphine. 64. Des Bassins. XVII. BATIGNOLLES- MONCEAUX. 65. Ternes. 66. Plaine de Monceaux. 67. Batignolles. 68. Epinettes. XVIII. BUTTE MONTMARTRE. 69. Grandes Carrieres. 70. Cliquancourt 71. Goutte d'Or. 72. La Chapelle. XIX. BUTTES CHAUMONT. 78. La Villette. 74. Pont de Flandre. 75. Amerique. 76. Combat XX. MENILMONTANT. 77. Belleville. 78. St. Fargeau. 79. Pere Lachaise. 80. Charonne. Each arrondissement has its mayor (maire) landlords, kwpers of baths and gymnasiums, exhibitors, acro- bats, and other classes. h Foundlings, the sick in public hospitals, inmates of prisons and asylums, &c., &c. In spite of the official designations given above, some ancient names and others coined in re- cent times are always applied in popular par- lance to certain of the quarters. The most prominent examples of this are the old names quartier St. Antoine, applied to the whole re- gion surrounding the present place de la Bas- tille; de la Cit6, to the island on which the chief part of mediaeval Paris was built; fau- bourg St. Germain, to the greater part of the 7th arrondissement and a small part of the 15th. Of coined names, the most commonly used are those of Latin quarter (quartier Latin), ap- plied to the former quartier St. Jacques (now
 * The more detailed French tables include in this category