Jules Ferry — Erosophia Encyclopedia

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Jules Ferry — Father of free, secular, compulsory schooling, 1832–1893

A Vosges lawyer who became the schools’ man: free in 1881, compulsory and secular in 1882 — “to organise humanity without God and without king”, in the words attributed to him. The same man drove colonial expansion, which brought him down; a bullet taken in 1887 marked him to his death. (Editorial synthesis)

Jules Ferry was born on 5 April 1832. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

Jules Ferry was born in Saint-Dié. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

Jules Ferry died on 17 March 1893. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

Jules Ferry died in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

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