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    EDTJCATION IS? FRANCE. . 295

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

    The first of these statesmen lias rendered his name memorable in the annals of education by the law of June 28 th 1833 which

    , , broug all the ht irregular within the Primary action S of chools the general then existing legislation and of provided the University for the

    which carrying had out hitherto of the provisions remained of without previous effect laws . , with The regard second to has them

    acby quired the an elaboration equally valid of the claim ordinances to the of gratitude 1836 and of his 1837 countrymen of which

    , the ment first of comp schools leted for the provisions irlsand the of the second existing ordained law the in the creation depart of

    those invaluable establishment g , s , the infant schools , called in France by the expressive appellation of Salles d'Asile , and which various , with the

    Creches Ouvriers and other establishments opened at epochs for the reception of the children of the poorer _clafsses , will be examined in their turn

    . The instruction prescribed in the Primary Schools , which were for the first time efficiently provided for by the law of 1833 ,

    consisted of two degrees , viz ., Elementary and Suj ) erior . The first com-X Linear _^ rehended Drawing h Moral History ; and in and Keli the the gious second elements Teaching were of , added the Writing Natural to , Arithmetic these Sciences bran . , ches and At _. .

    a Geograp later period y , , Singing , was introduced into all the public schools of France .

    Every commune throughout the kingdom was bound to provide junction at least to with one support Elementary one the or more Primary of alone the School nei to ghbouring provide , either a communes alone suit , able or , in e if dific con too e -

    that poor should serve both expense for the dwelling ; of the teacher , and for a school for -room the ; and ing to furnish out of the the school prescribed -room with course everything of instruction neces- .

    sary carry The tain containing chef at least -lieu a , one population or count Superior y town of Primary six , of thousand each School Department souls . And , were , every and bound all Dep communes to artment

    mainwas bound to establish , alone or in conjunction with contiguous Department The examinations s , at least one of Primary candidates Normal for Mastershi School . in the Primary p

    Schools were conducted by the Academy of each Circumscription , the influence A Council of the composed Bishops of being the Mag carefull istrates y excluded and academic . teachers of

    each on the commun amoun , e t , appointed of his or her the salary teacher , which of its Primary could not School be less , decided than

    the ei exercised ght Superior pounds an per oversi Scho annum ols ht , administered ov in er the the Elementary teach the er , affair whom , and s they of sixteen the alone school pounds had , and the in g

    power to reprimand , suspend , or , revoke ; the teacher , in the latter " the who case , , lace havin on the of g abro that a rig gation ht dignitary of appeal of the at . offi the to the ce head of Minister the of Gran the of d Council Public Master of Instruction , had the taken Uni * -

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    Edtjcation Is? France. . 295

    _EDTJCATION IS ? FRANCE . . 295

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 295, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/7/