François Albert
| François Albert | |
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Albert in 1924
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| Minister of Education and Fine Arts | |
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In office 14 June 1924 – 17 April 1925 |
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| Prime Minister | Édouard Herriot |
| Preceded by | Adolphe Landry |
| Succeeded by | Anatole de Monzie |
| Minister of Labor | |
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In office 31 January 1933 – 25 October 1933 |
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| Prime Minister | Édouard Daladier |
| Preceded by | Albert Dalimier |
| Succeeded by | Eugène Frot |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
4 April 1877 Bordeaux, France |
| Died | 23 November 1933 (aged 56) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Journalist |
François Albert (4 April 1877 – 23 November 1933) was a French journalist and politician. He was violently anti-clerical. Albert was Minister of Education in 1924–25, and Minister of Labor in 1933. As education minister he promoted secular state schools (écoles uniques), state support for education of poor children, and reform of the curriculum to place greater emphasis on sciences and modern languages.
François Albert was born in Bordeaux on 4 April 1877. He attended the École Normale Supérieure and gained a diploma in literature and a license in law. He taught literature in Laon and Paris, then became a journalist. He contributed to l'Aurore, Georges Clemenceau's l'Homme libre, La Dépêche de Toulouse, the Revue politique et Parlementaire and l'Ere nouvelle.
Albert was elected to represent the canton of Vouillé in the general council of Vienne. In 1920 he was elected senator for Vienne. Albert was known for his hostility to clericalism, and was vocal in opposition to reopening the French embassy to the Vatican. In the early 1920s there was heated debate between proponents of the repartition proportionelle scolaire, which would allow for state-supported religious schools, and the école unique in which all state schools would be secular. Albert represented the radicals at a February 1922 meeting arranged by the Ligue de la République to discuss defense of the secular public school, an area where the socialists and radicals were in agreement.
Albert became president of the Ligue de l'enseignement (Education League) shortly before being appointed Minister of Public Education in Édouard Herriot's mainly Radical government in 1924. He was Minister of Education from 14 June 1924 to 17 April 1925. Albert introduced an initial reform to the lycée (secondary school) curriculum on 9 August 1924 in which all pupils would now study French, history, geography and sciences. The student could choose in the last four years whether to concentrate on classics, modern languages, or science. In September he ordered that primary inspectors should have authority over elementary classes of the lycee, and these classes should accept capable primary school students.
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