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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.
The Jules Ferry Laws are a set of French laws which established free education in 1881, then mandatory and laic (secular) education in 1882. Jules Ferry , a lawyer holding the office of Minister of Public Instruction in the 1880s, is widely credited for creating the modern Republican school ( l'école républicaine ).
He was the uncle by marriage of the wife of Jules Ferry. [2] He was a Republican and opposed the French Second Empire of Napoleon III. He was elected member for Haut Rhin on 2 July 1871 and became senator for life on 15 September 1875. Twenty years later, he was the last representative of the Alsace French Parliament.
He resigned in 1882, and in February 1883 became minister of foreign affairs in the Jules Ferry cabinet, but retired in November of the same year. In 1890 he was elected vice-president of the Senate, and in 1893 succeeded Jules Ferry as its president, a position he held from 27 March 1893 to 16 January 1896. His clear and reasoned eloquence ...
Cambon was born and died in Paris. He was called to the Parisian bar, and became private secretary to Jules Ferry in the préfecture of the Seine.After ten years of administrative work in France as secretary of préfecture, and then as prefect successively of the départements of Aube (1872), Doubs (1876), Nord (1877–1882), he exchanged into the diplomatic service, being nominated French ...
When Charles de Freycinet retired, Farre kept the War portfolio in the reconstituted cabinet created on 23 September 1880 under the chairmanship of Jules Ferry. On 25 November 1880, Farre was appointed senator for life, receiving 138 votes in contrast to 128 votes for Admiral Marie Jules Dupré. He remained Minister of War after becoming a senator.
She was named to the post by Jules Ferry. [1] She was inspector-general of kindergartens from 1881 until 1917. She was extremely active, attending conferences, dealing with regional and national authorities and campaigning against child poverty and for women's causes. [2]
His support of the second Jules Ferry ministry and his zeal for the colonial expansion of France gave him considerable weight in the moderate Republican party. [1] He had entered the Senate in 1885, and he became minister of public works in the Tirard ministry (December 1887 to March 1888).