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294 EDUCATION IN FEANCE.
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dated June 16 th , 1828 , which restricted to twenty thousand the number of ils for all France legalladmissible into the clerical
pup y seminaries and colleges , limited to a certain proportion of the population of the several dioceses the number of pupils to be received
into these institutions in each diocese , and placed under the control of the University all schools established by religious corporations
not authorised by the State . Meantime , the Normal School of Paris , which had enjoyed an
uninterrupted prosperity from the period of its foundation , and which had iven to France the most intelligent and high-minded
body of Professors g it had yet possessed , had excited the distrust and icion of the governmentbthe spirit of independence it had
susp begun to manifest . Disgusted , with y the position of servility to the government and the church to wliich the University had been
reduced " had learned under the nothing sway of and those forgotten wlio , during nothing the / 7 year and whose s of adversit aim was y ,
to replace the kingdom under tlie regime of absolutism that had received its death-blow from the Revolution which they affected to
ignore , the enlightened and ardent spirits who aspired to the work of conducting the education of the youth of their native land , and
who had not yet been warped by fear and by self-interest , took no pains to dissemble their tendencies and their antipathiesand nowhere
, was the re-action against the political and ecclesiastical system of the Court more energetic than among the students of the Normal School .
In order to decentralise an opposition whose influence it dreaded , the government now attached a subsidiary Normal School to each
of the Provincial Academies , and to each of the Iloyal Colleges of Paris ; and soon after the oriinal institution had been thus weakened
g by dismemberment , the Normal School was suppressed altogether . The destruction of this noble institution , was regarded as an
educational calamity by all the Professors of the University , and being attributed to the influence of the clergythe measure increased the
violence of tlie antipathy already existing , between those two bodies . "When the throne of tlie Bourbons had been again overturned ,
and the Citizen King installed in the Tuileries , his government , while retaining the organisation devised by Napoleon , hastened to
introduce the educational measures most imperatively called for by the -wishes of the nation . An article of the new constitution
promised the liberty of teaching to all persons , lay or clerical , fulfilling certain prescribed'conditions of qualificationaptitude , and morality ;
, the episcopal body was deprived of the right of inspecting Lyceums and Colleges , conferred on it by tlie government of the Restoration ,
and a royal ordinance of August 6 th , 1830 , re-established the Normal School of Paris with all the rights and privileges granted to
it by its original constitution . The Primary Schools which had gradually sprung * up-here and
there , through private effort , but which had hitherto . been left in a very languishing state , roceivod a new impulso from the enlightened
and persevering _oflbrfcs of MM . G _uizot and Do Sulvaiidy .
294 Education In Feance.
294 EDUCATION IN FEANCE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 294, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/6/
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