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Here we see what we believe to be a French secondary school in the 1900s. The building shows a rather impressive school, but they could be on a school trip. They would have been the juniot students at a secondary school. Perhaps someone with regonize the building. Most secondary schools at the time were single gender schools. The photograph is not identified or dated, but it looks to be the 1900s. We think it is French because all the names written on the back are clearly French names. It could be a Belgian school, but French is more likely. The boys wear cadet uniforms, but it probably was not a military school. as part of the desire to toughen the national character after the disaterous defeat in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71). Most boys French secondary school had military-styled cadet uniforms.
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