HIST 274 Lecture 13: HIST274 Lecture 13: Week 7 - The Third Republic: Political Reorientations, Scandals, and Art
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Week 7 - the third republic: political reorientations, scandals, and art. Positivism - influenced moderate republicans, wanted to apply science to the political order. Make things modern, rational, technical, had to get rid of the source of superstition. 1880s positivists went after the catholic church, enemy of liberalism and republicanism. Pope pius ix against liberalism , anticlericalism. 1880s positivist in control in govt, opportunity to diminish power of the catholic church in france. Jules ferry and the ferry laws (1879-1886) - minister of education changing law to diminish influence and control primary education by the catholic church. Ferry laws (state) secularized education - trained teachers in secularism, science, etc. No longer allowed to teach religion in schools. Intense struggle between school teacher trained in positivism and the priest. Catholic journalist counter attack - the third republic was referred to as the shit. Reaction to the new right wing, the moderates made popular general, boulanger, minister of war.
