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    EDUCATION IN FRANCE. 223

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    wonien of the middle classes were not always able to read , and those of tlie laboring de classes were should ignorant not onl even have of their advocate alphabet d the

    —lielike M . Talleyrand , y also duty have , of providing boldland instruction vigorousl for proclaimed all classes the of equal the community rights of both , but

    sexes to the benefits y of education y . The bill in question would have laced the schools for irlshitherto so contemptuously neglected ,

    p g , to oil be an the equal same footing in with both those with for differences boys ; the merel branches in of the stud kinds y were of y

    manual labor to be introduced , into each . The projected law also gymnastics proposed two and other of important athletic modifications and exercises , viz ., in the the introduction open airfor of

    games , which the purpose its franier of strengthening had borrowed and from develop the stud ing y of tlie the bod ancient y—an repub idea - arts

    lics—and the instruction of the pupils in the various industrial and in agriculture

    . dren _> 1 sh propose all be , taug " says ht to M . cultivate Lepelletier the Saint earth - . Fargeau They may , _" that also all be made

    chilto work upon the roads . Different localities , seasons , and manufactures in the _neighbourhood of the schools will offer special resources

    for their instruction . " Many parents , however , who would not , perhaps , regret the

    initiation of their children into various other branches of industry and agriculturemiht probablobject to their employment in

    , gy mending roads . _Tiie proposition was in reality a protest against the exclusivelscholastic forms which education had hitherto been

    y made to assume , as the proposal to bring up the youth of France on a Spartan dietand with an ascetic simplicity of outward

    conditions , was also a , protest against the luxury and corruption of the preceding reigns ; the reaction , as is so often the case under such

    circumstances , tending to overshoot the mark . Shortly after the presentation of his project , Lepelletier Saint

    -Fargeau was assassinated . Forty thousand copies of the text of the proposed law were sold in Paris on the day of his death , but no

    attempt was made to put his project into execution . * Besides these two remarkable documents , the various Assemblies

    which governed France from 1789 to 1802 put forth a great number of Decrees relative to public instructionand especially to the

    , establishment of primary schools . Thus , in 1793 , a committee named by the Convention had reported a vague project for the

    organisation , all over France , of four degrees of schools , —viz ., Primary and Secondary Schools , Institutions , and Lyceums . From twenty

    to twenty-five thousand primary schools—being one school for each square league of its territory—were to be established throughout

    tlie French . Republic . Later in the same year two other decrees were issuedof which the first ordained the establishment of a

    Pri-, mary School in every locality containing" from four to fifteen hundred

    inhabitants ; and in the second prescribed the course of elementary

    Education In France. 223

    EDUCATION IN FRANCE . 223

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 223, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/7/