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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)Jules Ferry (1832–1893), republican philosopher and politician, who became minister of public instruction, put in place a series of laws from 1881 to 1882 that would make primary education free and compulsory to all those living in the French nation.
Jules Ferry, the then Minister of Public Instruction is regarded as the founder of "the modern republican school" (1 ́echole republican). The Jules Ferry's laws established free education in 1881, then mandatory and laic education in 1882