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Show CENSUS OF FRANCE. Official Figure Give Population et Almost Forty Million. The mlnlater of Commerce ha com pletod an official report of the tenant of France In 1901. It ahowe the population pop-ulation to be R8,9A1,fl4B, or a gain of only 444.01S In ten yenra. Comparative table disclose thnt there Is no othet European nation In which the popnlv tlon Increased ao llttlo The percentage percent-age of population In Orent Tlrltnln, Germany and Riiaala Is almost a third greater than In France for th am porlod. |