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Jules Ferry
Jules Ferry was a French republican statesman who twice served as prime minister, in 1880–1881 and 1883–1885. As education minister his laws of 1881–1882 made primary schooling free, compulsory and secular. He was also the leading advocate of colonial expansion, pursuing the conquest of Tunisia, Tonkin and Madagascar, and fell from power in 1885 after the French reverse at Lạng Sơn in the Sino-French War.
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