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Combat pour l'école (Lyon, 1870-1880)

La laïcisation de l’enseignement public
Tristan Boffard

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Prepared since the middle of the XIXth century, a fundamental fight took place between 1870 and 1880. On one side, a triumphant Roman Catholic Church, allied naturally or by obligation in the conservative forces. On the other side, republican ideas in constant progress and which try to impose the Republic in the French heart. Beyond the punctual actions, the mastery of the instruction of the children was imperative itself. The catholic flourish in the course of the century, gave to the Church a length beforehand in this thorough work. Nevertheless, the sensitive social and economic evolutions from the middle of the century favored the development of the anticlericalism. The forces balancing itself, the positions became more radical. The defeat of 1870 played the role of detonator, and the first battle was gained by the "Municipality of Lyon". Wildly republican and laic, the City Council secularized the primary state education and the rooms of asylum from 1870. The counter-attack of the Church, pressed on conservative governments then on the moral Order, appeared one moment to take it on the irreducibility of the municipal authorities. But the decisive victory of the radicals from 1876 decided on the definitive secularization of the public primary education in Lyon, as in France.

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Tristan Boffard, “Combat pour l'école (Lyon, 1870-1880)”Cahiers d'histoire [Online], 46-3/4 | 2001, Online since 13 May 2009, connection on 18 April 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/ch/423; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/ch.423

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