LARGE FAMILIES IN FRANCE.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13754, 20 June 1913, Page 3

LARGE FAMILIES IN FRANCE.

T Tho French, though h® a nation fj'ghting against a steadily falling birthrjato, aro not without their examples of Big families. Tho Farmers' Association of the Department of Loir-et-Chor has hold at Blois a competition for agricultural workers who hevo brought up tho largest families, all the members of which nave remained "on tho lajfcl if Eleven grandmothers—tho youngest aged 45 and the' oldest 801 — presented themselves, surrounded by 95 children and 138 grandchildren. The first prizo wont to a woman who has had 13 children, of whom 9 aro livng, and 20 grandchildren.