[The Origins of Contemporary France Volume 6 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link bookThe Origins of Contemporary France Volume 6 (of 6) CHAPTER III 3/92
The school system ceases to be a military apprenticeship and the college is no longer a preparatory annex for the barracks.
Soon and for many years, Guizot, Cousin, and Villemain brilliantly hold the chairs at Sorbonne university and teach the highest subjects of philosophy, literature and history admired by attentive and sympathetic audiences.
Later, under the monarchy of July, the Institute, mutilated by the First Consul, restores and completes itself.
It becomes once more united with the suspect division of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, which after the Consulate, had been missing.
In 1833, a minister, Guizot, provides, through a law which has become an institution, for the regular maintenance, the obligatory appropriation, the certain recruitment, and for the quality and universality of primary instruction.
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