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Falloux Law
French history [1850]
Quick Facts
- Date:
- 1850
- Location:
- France
Falloux Law, (1850) act granting legal status to independent secondary schools in France. It was sponsored by Count Frédéric-Alfred-Pierre de Falloux (1811–86), minister of education in the Second Republic, and one of its main architects was a Roman Catholic bishop, Félix-Antoine-Philibert Dupanloup (1802–78). Under the guise of freedom of education, it restored much of the church’s traditional influence.