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    298 EDUCATION IN FRANCE.

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    «S8s»~ No. Ii. Instruction The System Be...

    the increasing Tlie Pol first ytechnic audiences idea School of these , is the due lectures to M ils , . which Monge of which were , the institution constantl illustrious y attended founder at a later by of

    Baron period ened , put Charles courses into Dup of execution lectures in , had , the pup for previous generous laboring to men the proje Revolution at ct the of their Conservatory , of master July , .

    of op Arts and Trades . His example was now followed , at Metz , with posed great success exclusivel ; and y of an the association former pup called ils of the the Pol Pol ytechnic ytechnic in the _^ and School com ital - ,

    was and in founded all the in cities Paris of , the with kin the dom view the of mode instituting of popular and cap in- , dustrial education of which Metz g alread , y offered the model .

    Nineteen of these centres of instruction , embracing all the branches mentioned above , were , in 1835 , in full activity in the principal

    cities of France . In addition to the various classes of educational establishments

    alreadenumeratedthere were in Paris , a Ci Committee of Jewish amon Schools y , the " a Protestants " Society , for of the France Encouragement / 7 a " Societ of for Primary the Moral Schools and y

    Positive g Education of the Working Classes , " numerous public Drawing of isolated Schools schools of of a various very efficient kinds , founded character by , and private a great benevolence number .

    w a compelled itnessed liberal But thoug a system by gradu h the the force al of government wi education of thdrawal public , of the of op Loui inion the latter s favor to Phili years exert ppe accorded itself of had his in been to rei behalf p gn rimary at first had of

    instruction , and an increase of privilege granted to the clerical schools at the expense of the lay ones ; members of religious

    corporations recognised by the State being _excmsed from all examination by the Academic Councils , and the inspection of their schools being

    confided to their ecclesiastical superiors . The system of education now established in France , though

    modified in certain details by the legislation of the Republic of 1848 , and of the present governmentis essentially the same as that whose

    , history The University during the , or last Superior fifty year Council s has just of Public been passed Instruction in review , is still .

    the supreme authority in all that regards the subject of education in France .

    posed By the of the decrees Minister of 1850 of Public , 1852 Instruction , and 1854 and , this Worshi Council p , who is is com its

    -President ; four Archbishops or Bishops , elected by their _colleagues of the episcopal body ; one Pastor of the Reformed Church , elected

    by its _consistories ; one Pastor of the Church of the Confession of Augsburgelected bits consistories ; one Rabbin of the Jewish

    consistory , , elected by y his colleagues ; three members of the Council of Stateelected by that body ; three members of the French

    Institute , elected , by the Institute in a General Assembly ; eight

    individuals chosen among former Ordinary Councillors of the University ,

    298 Education In France.

    298 EDUCATION IN FRANCE .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 298, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/10/