Institutional Innovation in Popular Education in Eighteenth Century France

During the second half of the eighteenth century in France, education was an issue that attracted considerable attention. Special interest in the seems to date from 1762, the year in which the Jesuits were expelled from France, and Rousseau's Emile appeared. Grimm wrote in April of 1763 that depuis la chute des jesuites et le livre inutile de Jean Jacques Rousseau, intitule Emile, on n'a cesse d'ecrire sur l'education.1 Two months later the journalist-baron noted that works on the were appearing weekly.2 In 1769 the Journal d'education appeared. Writing in the first number of publication, the abbe de Lille asserted that peut-etre on n'a parle si souvent sur l'education qu'on ne le fait aujourd'hui.3 The Jansenist Nouvelles ecclesiasiques observed in 1777 that many works on education had appeared in the last fifty years and that interest in this important subject had grown noticeably since the expulsion of the Jesuits.4 In 1782 the editor of an anonymous pamphlet entitled Considerations generales sur l'education asserted, La matiere de l'education publique attache en ce moment plus que jamais les esprits.5 In the same year the Annee litteraire complained that il y a plus de

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