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MARION, HENRI FRANCOIS (1846-1896)

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MARION, See also:HENRI See also:FRANCOIS (1846-1896) , See also:French philosopher and educationalist, was See also:born at See also:Saint-Parize-en-Viry (See also:Nievre) on the 9th of See also:September 1846. He studied at See also:Nevers, and at the &tole Normale, where he graduated in 1868. After occupying several See also:minor positions, he returned to See also:Paris in 1875•as See also:professor. of the Lycee Henri IV., and in 188o he became docteur-es-lettres. In the same See also:year he was elected a member of the See also:Council of Public Instruction, and devoted himself to improving the See also:scheme of French See also:education, especially in girls' See also:schools. He was largely instrumental in the See also:foundation of ecoles normales in provincial towns, and himself gave courses of lectures on See also:psychology and See also:practical See also:ethics in their See also:early days. He died in Paris on the 5th of See also:April 1896. His See also:chief philosophical See also:works were an edition of the Theodicee of See also:Leibnitz (1874), a monograph on See also:Locke (1878), Devoirs et droits de 1'homme (188o), Glissonius utrum Leibnitio de natura substantiae cogitanti quidquam tribuerit (188o) ; De La solidarite morale (4th ed., 1893). His lectures at See also:Fontenoy have been published in two volumes entitled Lecons de psychologie appliquee a l'education, and Lecons de morale; those delivered at the See also:Sorbonne are collected in L'Education clans l'universite (1892).

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