BOOK - by Pierre MAZATAUD - Ouest-France éditions 2006 - 176 - Lot 863

BOOK - by Pierre MAZATAUD - Ouest-France éditions 2006 - 176 pages illustrated with photos and various documents, letters - 23 x 15 cm. In the "écrits société" collection "INSTITUTRICES, SOEURS LAIQUES de la REPUBLIQUE " (INSTITUTIONS, LAIC SISTERS OF THE REPUBLIC) A remarkable historian's work, full of humor and surprises. The author traces the biographies of 12 female teachers in the "secular" school of the republic, whom many anticlericals were delighted to see emerge, just as they longed for the disappearance of Christian schools. Their only problem: in their minds, the young unmarried schoolteacher had to behave like a nun... in her dress, her language, her attitude towards the village bachelors... and her hairstyle... The author recounts the surveillance of these young ladies, the guardianship of the mayor, the education inspector, the Prefect and the anonymous letters of denunciation they received. What an interesting world! A breathtaking story of everyday life in the 1900s...