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H. D. Lewis. The French Education System. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Pp. 201. $27.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Linda L. Clark*
Affiliation:
Millersville University of Pennsylvania

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Copyright © 1986 by the History of Education Society 

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References

1. Mayeur, Françoise, De la Révolution à l'école républicaine (1789–1930), vol. 3 of Histoire générale de l'enseignement et de l'éducation en France, ed. Parias, Louis-Henry (Paris, 1981); Prost, Antoine, L'école et la famille dans une société en mutation (1930–1980), vol. 4 of ibid.Google Scholar

2. Prost notes that even after public secondary schools became free during the 1930s, about half the students in sixième continued to come from these special elementary classes rather than from the regular primary schools. Prost, , Ecole, 214.Google Scholar

3. Briand, Jean-Pierre and Chapoulie, Jean-Michel, “L'enseignement primaire supérieur des garçons en France, 1918–1942,” Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales no. 39 (Sept. 1981): 87111; Briand, Chapoulie, and Péretz, Henri, “Les conditions institutionelles de la scolarisation secondaire des garçons entre 1920 et 1940,” Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine 26 (July-Sept. 1979): 391–421.Google Scholar