Jules Ferry

Jules Ferry
Prime Minister of France
In office
21 February 1883 – 30 March 1885
PresidentJules Grévy
Preceded byArmand Fallières
Succeeded byHenri Brisson
In office
23 September 1880 – 10 November 1881
PresidentJules Grévy
Preceded byCharles de Freycinet
Succeeded byLéon Gambetta
President of the French Senate
In office
24 February 1893 – 17 March 1893
Preceded byPhilippe Le Royer
Succeeded byPaul-Armand Challemel-Lacour
Minister of Public Education and Fine Arts
In office
21 February 1883 – 20 November 1883
Prime MinisterHimself
Preceded byJules Duvaux
Succeeded byArmand Fallières
In office
30 January 1882 – 29 July 1882
Prime MinisterCharles de Freycinet
Preceded byPaul Bert
Succeeded byJules Duvaux
In office
4 February 1879 – 10 November 1881
Prime MinisterWilliam Waddington
Charles de Freycinet
Himself
Preceded byAgénor Bardoux
Succeeded byPaul Bert
Member of the French Chamber of Deputies
for Vosges
In office
8 February 1871 – 6 October 1889
Preceded byLouis Buffet
Succeeded byErnest Picot
10th Mayor of Paris
In office
15 November 1870 – 5 June 1871
Preceded byÉtienne Arago
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Jacques Chirac (1977)
Member of the French Legislative Body
for Seine
In office
8 June 1869 – 8 February 1871
Preceded byÉmile Ollivier
Succeeded byCharles Floquet
Personal details
Born
Jules François Camille Ferry

(1832-04-05)5 April 1832
Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, Vosges, Kingdom of France
Died17 March 1893(1893-03-17) (aged 60)
Paris, Seine, French Republic
Political party"Close" Republicans
(1869–1871)
Moderate Republicans
(1871–1888)
National Republican Association
(1888–1893)
Spouse
Eugénie Risler
(m. 1875)
(1850–1920)
ProfessionJournalist, lawyer

Jules François Camille Ferry (French: [ʒyl fɛʁi]; 5 April 1832 – 17 March 1893) was a French statesman and republican philosopher.[1] He was one of the leaders of the Moderate Republicans and served as Prime Minister of France from 1880 to 1881 and 1883 to 1885. He was a promoter of laicism and colonial expansion.[2] Under the Third Republic, Ferry made primary education free and compulsory through several new laws.[1][3] However, he was forced to resign following the Sino-French War in 1885 due to his unpopularity and public opinion against the war.

  1. ^ a b Hughes, Conrad (26 April 2021). Education and Elitism: Challenges and Opportunities. Routledge. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-000-37731-6. 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.
  2. ^ A History of Western Society, Seventh Edition. John Buckler, Bennett D. Hill, John P. McKay
  3. ^ Ichilov, Orit (7 March 2009). The Retreat from Public Education: Global and Israeli Perspectives. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-1-4020-9570-2. 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