Jules François Camille Ferry. Examples of everyday abuse included pupils and students speaking words in a tongue other than French at school or in the schoolyard being systematically punished and humiliated, with slapping and their fingers whacked by the teacher's ruler common reminders that French and only French was the language of the Republic. At a time when many French citizens were naturally fluent in two or more languages, … Wikipedia
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French statesman of the early Third Republic, notable both for his anticlerical education policy and for his success in extending the French colonial empire. Ferry pursued his father's profession of law and was called to the Paris bar in 1855. Soon, how www.thelatinlibrary.com/imperialism/notes/ferry.html
