FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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Question
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Lycees
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Concordats
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Guillotines
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Sans-cullotes
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Detailed explanation-1: -The radicals passed the Jules Ferry laws, which established first free education (1881) then mandatory and secular education (1882).
Detailed explanation-2: -on UNDER NAPOLEON-The education system in France changed. Four grades of school were set up; primary, secondary, lycées (schools run military lines) and technical schools. Schools now stressed the importance of obedience and military values although primary education stayed almost as it had been before 1789.
Detailed explanation-3: -Napoleon has been given much credit for modernizing France’s education system. Among the institutions he set up or expanded were: Primary schools in every commune under the general supervision of the prefects or sub-prefects. Secondary or grammar schools that were under the control of the central government.
Detailed explanation-4: -Etymology. From Latin lyceum, from Ancient Greek (Lúkeion) (the name of a gymnasium, or athletic training facility, near Athens where Aristotle established his school), from ("Lycian” or “wolf-killer").