Hughes, Conrad (26 April 2021). Education and Elitism: Challenges and Opportunities. Routledge. p. 44. ISBN978-1-000-37731-6. «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.»
Ichilov, Orit (7 March 2009). The Retreat from Public Education: Global and Israeli Perspectives. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN978-1-4020-9570-2. «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».
Housefield, James (2016). Playing with Earth and Sky: Astronomy, Geography, and the Art of Marcel Duchamp. Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College Press. p. 33. ISBN978-1-61168-957-0. «[...] the Ministry of Education under the leadership of Jules Ferry in the 1870s and '80s.27 In these so-called Ferry maps displaying France and her regions, the mapmaker blackened the territories of Alsace-Lorraine, long contested, and taken from France by Germany in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71.»
Adu Boahen, A. and the International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa, ed. (2000). General History of Africa(en inglés). Vol. III. Africa Under Colonial Domination 1880-1935. París, Francia: UNESCO Publishing. pp. 223-224. ISBN0-520-03918-1. Consultado el 11 de diciembre de 2013.