1. Ferdinand Buisson presided over the League of Education from 1902 to 1906 and over the Human Rights League from 1914 to 1926.
15 Facts About Ferdinand Buisson
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Ferdinand Buisson was the author of a thesis on Sebastian Castellio, in whom he saw a "liberal Protestant" in his image.
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Ferdinand Buisson was the president of the National Association of Freethinkers.
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Ferdinand Buisson was a student at the Lycee Condorcet, then received his aggregation in philosophy.
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From 1879 to 1896, Ferdinand Buisson was called by Jules Ferry, the successor of Jules Simon, the Directorate of Primary Education.
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Ferdinand Buisson supervised the work of writing and designing the laws of secularism.
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In 1898, as a supporter of Alfred Dreyfus, Ferdinand Buisson participated in the creation of the French League for Human Rights, which he was president from 1913 to 1926.
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Ferdinand Buisson was sympathetic to women's suffrage, unlike most Radicals, and was rapporteur of the committee that examined the proposal of Paul Dussaussoy for limited women's suffrage.
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Ferdinand Buisson submitted a separate report on women's suffrage on 16 July 1909, some months after Dussaussoy's death.
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In 1914 and during the World War I, Ferdinand Buisson was one of the patriots and defended the Sacred Union.
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Ferdinand Buisson was elected again from 1919 to 1924, and worked for Franco-German reconciliation, especially after the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923.
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Ferdinand Buisson was the prime contractor for a remarkable editorial project, the Dictionnaire de pedagogie et d'instruction primaire, for the writing of which he surrounded himself with more than 350 collaborators, and more particularly with James Guillaume who became its editor-in-chief.
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Not limited to the role of editorial responsibility, Ferdinand Buisson wrote entries such as Secularism, Intuition, and Prayer.
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Ferdinand Buisson's dictionary is considered the "Bible" of the secular, republican school system, and introduced the concept of a secular religious replacement.
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Ferdinand Buisson received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1927 with the German professor Ludwig Quidde.