Jules Ferry

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Jules Ferry was a prominent French statesman of the early Third Republic, best known for championing free, compulsory, secular education and for his role in expanding France’s colonial empire.

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Jules Ferry government 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French politician
human
statesman
burialPlace Montparnasse Cemetery
surface form: Cimetière du Montparnasse
causeOfPoliticalDownfall Tonkin Affair
countryOfBirth France
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1832-04-05
dateOfDeath 1893-03-17
educatedAt Faculty of Law of Paris
Lycée Condorcet
era French Third Republic
familyName Ferry
givenName Jules
hasMonument Place Jules-Ferry in Paris
Statue of Jules Ferry in Paris
ideology colonialism
republicanism
secularism
knownFor education reforms in the early French Third Republic
expansion of the French colonial empire
mannerOfDeath natural causes
memberOfPoliticalParty Opportunist Republicans
Republican Union
namesake numerous French schools
nativeLanguage French
notableAchievement introduced compulsory primary education in France
introduced free primary education in France
introduced secular primary education in France
strengthened laïcité in French schools
notableWork Ferry laws on primary education
occupation journalist
lawyer
politician
placeOfBirth Saint-Dié-des-Vosges
placeOfDeath Paris
positionHeld Deputy of the French National Assembly
Mayor of Paris
Minister of Foreign Affairs of France
Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts of France
President of the Council of Ministers of France
Prime Minister of France
Senator of France
religion agnosticism
sexOrGender male
spouse Eugénie Risler
supportedPolicy French colonial expansion in Indochina
French colonial expansion in Madagascar
French colonial expansion in Tunisia

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Jules Grévy headOfGovernment Jules Ferry
French protectorate of Tunisia establishedBy Jules Ferry
this entity surface form: Jules Ferry government