Researching Jacques Chevalier
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 179 people with the Chevalier surname? In that year Chevalier was ranked number 3400 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Jacques means "one who supplants" and is of French origin.
Records of Jacques Chevalier on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Jacques Chevalier and the Chevalier Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 191 people with the Chevalier surname in the UK? Chevalier is now ranked number 3863 for popularity in the UK. |
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Jacques Chevalier
Jacques Chevalier (13 March 1882 – 19 April 1962) was a French Catholic philosopher and a politician.
Chevalier was born in Cérilly, Allier, educated at the École normale supérieure and the University of Oxford and taught at the Faculty of Letters in Grenoble. He was a specialist of Plato and author of many books, mainly about the history of philosophy.
A friend of Lord Halifax, he was also a Minister for education in 1941 under the Vichy Regime, and was as such the only member of the government to be present at the funeral of the philosopher Henri Bergson. A devout Catholic, he attempted to eradicate the anti-religious feeling in educational circles and consequently closed the "Écoles Normales", which had been created in each "département" by the François Guizot law of 1833 to prepare teachers for elementary classes, replacing them with "Instituts de formation professionnelle". The anti-clerical Collaborationists opposed him however, and he had to step down (he was replaced by the historian Jérôme Carcopino); his reform was eventually abolished and the "Écoles Normales" were recreated.
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