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1850
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France
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Falloux Law

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

This article was most recently revised and updated by Maren Goldberg.