A model of Republican Instruction
In the classroom, the work of the little ones. © Photo RMN-Grand Palais - J.-G. Berizzi Publication date: February 2009 Historical background The beginnings of the school of the Third Republic The painting In the classroom, the work of the little ones was made by Jean Geoffroy in 1889. The school, its teachers and its pupils gradually becoming familiar to the greatest number, the end of the 1880s was marked in fact by a growing interest in the question of childhood: emergence of childcare; constitution of children's medicine; debates around instruction and education; development of the treatment of this theme in the different arts.