Jean Macé
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| Born | 22 August 1815  |
| Died | 13 December 1894 (aged 79) |
| Occupation | Pedagogue, politician, writer |
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Jean François Macé (22 August 1815 in Paris – 13 December 1894 in Monthiers) was a French educator, journalist, active freemason[1] and politician. He was perhaps best known as the founder of Ligue de l'enseignement to promote free, universal and secular education. From 1883 until his death, he was a senator for life in the Third Republic Senate.[2]
Biography
[edit]The son of a working-class family (his father was a coachman), Jean Macé received an excellent education at the Collège Stanislas de Paris. At an early age, he worked for the newspaper La République, among others.
Forced to leave Paris after Napoleon III coup d'état on December 2, 1851, he found refuge in Alsace(Beblenheim, Haut-Rhin), where he applied his concept of pedagogy to a school for girls. As a teacher, he had the idea of writing popular science books for children, such as L'Histoire d'une bouchée de pain, lettres à une petite fille sur nos organes et nos fonctions, published in 1861 and a great success. He also wrote articles for L'Économiste français, an economic weekly founded in 1862 by Jules Duval (1813-1870).
He worked for mass education, founding the Magasin d'éducation et de récréation in 1864 with publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel, then creating the Ligue de l'enseignement in 1866, which fought for the establishment of free, compulsory, secular schools. It was at this time that he befriended officer Louis Rossel (future war delegate to the Paris Commune), a supporter of education for the working classes, and Henri Maurice Berteaux, deputy for Seine-et-Oise.
He was elected Senator for life (France) in 1883.
He died and was buried in Monthiers. His ashes were transferred to Beblenheim on July 15, 1946. However, a Cenotaph continues to perpetuate his memory in Monthiers cemetery.
References
[edit]- ^ Dictionnaire Universelle de la Franc-Maçonnerie - Jode and Cara (Larousse - 2011)
- ^ "Biographie de Jean Macé". Ligue de l'enseignement (in French). 9 March 2015. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
External links
[edit]- Works by Jean Macé at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Jean Macé at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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