{"id":3121,"date":"2011-11-11T12:38:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T17:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/?p=3121"},"modified":"2012-03-05T13:21:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T18:21:29","slug":"french-as-the-common-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/french-as-the-common-language\/","title":{"rendered":"French as the Common language"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><div id=\"attachment_3117\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-11-11-French-as-the-Common-Language.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3117\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3117\" title=\"French as the Common Language\" src=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-11-11-French-as-the-Common-Language-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Carlos Porto<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt taken from the book\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/en\/the-story-of-french\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Story of French<\/em><\/a><\/span><em> <\/em>(Ch. 6)<\/h3>\n<p>Many plans were made during the revolutionary period to establish a system of free primary schools throughout France. But the results were meagre; it was partly a problem of manpower and partly the result of general political chaos. In many French towns there were no teachers who spoke French, and few towns had the resources to train new ones. The National Assembly came up with a vast plan to produce and distribute teaching books in French, but amid the political and social upheaval of the Revolution, the books never got printed. In 1794, seeing the poor results of the Committee for Public Instruction, the revolutionary government decided to create a teacher-training school in Paris, the <em>\u00c9cole normale<\/em> (teachers\u2019 college, a term still in use).<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Each of the <em>D\u00e9partements <\/em>(administrative territories created during the Revolution) had orders to send four individuals \u201cwith a disposition for teaching\u201d to Paris, where they would be provided with accommodation and paid during their training. But even that wasn\u2019t enough to get universal education off the ground.<strong> <\/strong>France would have to wait until the middle of the nineteenth century for a universal primary education system to be established.<\/p>\n<p>French spread rapidly during the Revolution, but by other means. Administrators were sent all over France by the central government, with the result that men from different regions were mixed together and had to use French as a common language. Mass conscription, which began under Robespierre, also mixed soldiers from different regions in France, forcing them to adopt French as a common language.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt taken from the book\u00a0The Story of French (Ch. 6) Many plans were made during the revolutionary period to establish a system of free primary &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3121"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3137,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions\/3137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}