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school in Paris , to serve as a model school , in which masters may be trained for the establishment of similar schools , throughout the departments . Should this beneficent design be carried into full effect , it may justly be considered as one of the most
remarkable events in the Mstory of this Institution ;—its objects * as regards France , is to provide instruction for two millions of poor children , who are growing up in ignora # c £ * and progressively we may expect the establishment of similar schools in many other parts of the Continent-. of
Europe . On receipt of this information , > Mr . Marten * from Bourdeaux , who had been under the patronage of the Society for several months , and had become well acquainted -with the system * took his departure from Paris .
The Committee desire to bear public testimony to the good conduct and close attention of Mr . Marten , to the object of his visit to this country . He having composed a spelling-book , and
reading-lessons in the French language , translated the lessens of arithmetic , &c , and prepared a regular and well-digested plan , to put the system into practice , as speedily as all the first arrangements can be made .
The Committee have also the pleasure to announce , that they have extended the patronage of the society to another young man from the south of France , the son of the respectable Dr . Frossard , Dean of Faculty , at the Protestant University at Montauban .
The object of Mr . Frossard is to establish schools upon the British System , at Montaban , Toulouse , Nismes , Montpelier , and Marseilles , in which populous cities the lower class of the people are almost entirely without the means of procuring instruction for their children .
By a letter to his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent , fro m the Count de L'Abord , we have the pleasing intelli gence that already three schools We been instituted in Paris . One , under the patronage and at the expense of the government , a second ,
under the direction of l Administration des Hospices , and at the charge ° f the city of Paris , and the third , by a Society supported by voluntary subscr iptions , to which the Count de J ^ abord is Secretary . To this Institution the Society of Encouragement
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voted 1 , 200 francs , and all the priiH cipal people in France are hoped to be contributors . On the arrival of Mr . Martet * in Paris , he was introduced to the Members of the Commission who received him witli much kindness .
A Meeting was held on the 16 th of May , at the house of the minister who presided at the sitting , and after a long discussion , the following Resolutions were agreed to : •—1 st . That a School should be
formed in Paris , upon the principles of the uew plan of education by Mr . Lancaster . £ d . That a building should be prepared for the said school .
3 d . That twenty children should instantly be selected to learn the mechanism of the new system of education , to serve as monitors , when the school shall be opened to the public .
4 th . That the children to be admitted into this school , shall amouut to 500 or 600 . 5 th . That Mr . Marten , of Bourdeaux , shall be director of this school . 6 th . That the name of these schpols shall be elementary schools , according to the new system of education .
7 th . That the lessons for reading , writing and arithmetic , shall be immediately prepared and printed . 8 th . That Messrs . L / AbbS Gualtier and Laysterie , shall examine the spelling-book made by Mr . Marte . n .
9 th . That Messrs . Laborde , Laysterie and d'Egerando , shall prepare the lessons for reading . The Committee have also received into their establishment a young
French lad , who i s qualify ing to act as a Monitor , and there is no doujbt but he will be exceedingly useful in that essential department of school "discipline .
The Committee have further the satisfaction to add , that very lately they have been applied to for information concerning' the establishment of a school at Ghent .
The Committee cannot but congratulate the Society on the details which are now presented to them , and notwithstanding the political horizon is once more obscured , they
trust that much is in progress for the welfare of the rising generation , and that by the next Anniversary Meeting , they will again be able to present details of a most consoling nature -
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^ r Intelligence . — + British and Foreign School Society . 395
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/67/
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