Figure 1.-- The performance of the French Army was so ineffictive that the new French Third Republic decided that something needed to be done to stiffen the character of French youth and build patriotic sentiment. The outward sign of this which is relected in the photographic record was introducung cadet uniforms in the schools. We are less sure anout the changes in the curriculum at this time. But the sudden appearance of military uniforms is easy to see. This CDV portrait is undatedm but looks to have vbeen taken about 1880. The photographer was Lavallé Euggéne in Paris.

Europe has a long history of cadet schools, ilitary schools to train officers at the secondary level for military careers. The number of these schools, however, was small. We suddently see large number of Frenh school boys with cadet-styled uniforms. These were not cadet schools training officers. They were regulr schools with normal academic programs. The only difference was that the boys wore cadet unifirms. This came about as a result of Frnces disaterous fefeat in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71). The result was the capture and removal of Emperor Napoleon III. The French established the Third Repoublic. The performance of the French Army was so ineffictive that the new French Third Republic decided that something needed to be done to stiffen the character of French youth and build patriotic sentiment. The outward sign of this which is relected in the photographic record was introducung cadet uniforms in the schools. We are less sure anout the changes in the curriculum at this time. But the sudden appearance of military uniforms is easy to see. There was no one uniform style apprived, just a military syle. The different schools were left to determiune the details pf the uniforms. This was only part of the Third Republic's educational reforms. They also mandated smocks for primary school children to reduce social class distinctions.

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