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The Ministry of Public Instruction

When, on October 11th 1832, François Guizot became the seventh Minister of Public Instruction of the July monarchy, he had for a long time been a recognised specialist of education issues. Since 1812, he had been professor of modern history at the Paris Faculty of Humanities, and even his most committed opponents agree that he […]

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D'après Paul BAUDRY (1828-1886), Léopold FLAMENG, Portrait de François Guizot. Gravure extraite de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts. XIXème fin. Coll. privée. Cliché François Louchet.

François Guizot, born in 1787 during the reign of Louis XVI, was one of the most prominent figures in France and in Europe for over half a century until his death in 1874, when Mac Mahon was President of the newly established Third Republic. A Protestant bourgeois, he was considered to be the greatest historian […]