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    EDUCATION IN FRANCE. 219

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    _was garded substituted by the Fren for ch the as _Eng tlieir lish inveterate , in the classification enemies , the of Gernian the nationali nation

    received ties The of the students the University degrees underwent of . Bachelor public and examinations of Master ; and , after the ble which attainment they

    of at least the first of these degrees was an indi _^ ensacondition of the obtaining of the . license , without which no man could legally

    within exercise This whose license the profession parochial was delivered of a dependency teacher by _. the the Chancellor candidate of proposed the Church to

    establish his school . The Chancellor bore the title of _" Master of the Schools" and could not refuse the license to any

    appli-, cant Founded who had b received the spontaneous the Bachelor initiative ' s degree of . professors and of y

    s tuden fortified ts , governed bthe intimate by its own union heads existing , renowned among for its mem its learning bers , the , y

    part University in the grew vicissitudes in numbers of the and national importance development , and . played an active The celebrated school of the Sorbonne—founded by Robert

    tion Sorbonne of a bod in 1253 of ecclesiastics , and whose who prim should ary obj devote ect had themselves been the fo exclu rma- - y

    sivel of the y to Universit gratuitous y . stud Other y and institutions teaching— for became the imp at arting leng the th of the classical head of

    learning France , the and Colleges the higher du Plessis branches _, of instit of Henri stu uted dy IV — at ., such various of St as . Louis periods College , of b Louis the

    le Grandand others—had been y education Kings of , France of the ; but le no : and attempt althoug had h been the schools made to just provide enumerated for the peop

    soverei abolished tions subsisted , gnties yet , throug and at that a the h later po the had wer period political previousl of the , when commotions crown divided the had feudal the absorbed of t succeeding erritory system all had of the France genera petty been , -

    its the influence action of graduall the University y died away was , y restricted and it disappeared within narrower altogether limit in s ,

    the Not whirl part that pool in there the of the stupendous were Revolution wanting drama , . among then those enacting who men played who a felt consp the i-

    importance should cuous be extended of devising to the a regular whole system of the of rising education generation , , whose . benefits While and

    harassed engaged in by a internal struggle difficulties of life and of death a no with less the threatening rest of Europ character e , , for the

    tlie leaders of the Revolution found time not only to provide establishment of telegraphs along the principal Grand lines Livre of communica to inau

    tionto reform the calendarto institute the , - gurate and , to decree the Decimal the Codification System , of of Currency the Civil , Wei Laws ghts but and also Measures to con- ,

    sider methods for rendering the knowledge of the , French language general throughout the Departments of France : —in many of which

    VOL . Y . Q 2

    Education In France. 219

    EDUCATION IN FRANCE . 219

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 219, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/3/