Note 14 — Chapter VI · EDUCATION AND RANK

The reason for the cheapness of the lycées is because they are not intended to be paying concerns (deficits being filled up by the State), and because the pupils benefit by the wholesale scale of all purchases, on which, of course, no profit is made. The buildings, being supplied by the towns and the State, are rent free. Some of the newer ones are magnificent. The Lycée Lakanal, near Paris, cost £400,000, and is a model of practical modern arrangement.