1. Pouthas, Charles. 1956.La population francaise pendant la première moitié du XIXe siècle17Paris: Cahiers de l'Institut national d'études démographiques. In his conclusion, page 95, Pouthas adds: “Le travail effectue a ete d'etablir les faits sans dépasser cet objet; on peut considérer, je crois, le résultat acquis comme offrant une garantie de certitude.”
2. Pouthas.Population195
3. 39 Pouthas gives 31.6 percent inPopulation
4. The 1801 and 1851 figures are correctly given in Pouthas' Table on page 41. But in the text (page 48) he reports the increase as 462,100, which would yield an increase of 36.5 percent, as against the 23.8 percent he gives in the same sentence, and the correct figure of 31.7 percent