Bert, Paul

has biography | a une biographie: Trained as a physician and a physiologist, he divided his time between his research on respiration and his political career. In 1872, he was elected as deputy by Auxerre. He became Minister of Public Instruction in the government of Léon Gambetta of whom he was a fervent supporter and drafted the laws establishing free, compulsory and secular education with Jules Ferry. He also wrote several school textbooks. He travelled to Algeria in the 1850s and was a member of the Paris Anthropology Society, whose racist theories he endorsed. In the wake of Gambetta’s policy of colonial expansion, he became the first civilian Governor General of Indochina, where he died.
was born | est né: 17 October 1833
died in | est mort par: 11 November 1886
has nationality | a la nationalité: France
has type | est de type: depicted

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