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If we go back to the origin of the French educational press, we find that 
it has made remarkable progress in the last twenty years. The first 
journal of education dates from 1789 ; this is the Journal de Famille ou 
Livre des Enfants of Seguin. From 1789-1870 have appeared about 
sixty school journals and bulletins of societies devoted to popular instruc- 
fion. Among the journals properly so-called, only a few have survived— 
the Manuel Général, the Ami de I Enfance, and the Journal des Insti- 
tuteurs. All the other educational periodicals have sprung up since 1870. 
But we have mentioned only the journals and reviews actually appearing, 
and that without pretending to give an exact and complete list. Looking 
backward, we can estimate the number of school journals at one hundred, 
of which more than one-half are devoted specially to questions touching 
elementary instruction. 
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