Note 5 — Chapter I · 1822—1843

Philosophie class. In French secondary schools or lycées the forms or classes, in Pasteur’s time, were arranged as follows, starting from the bottom—

1ºhuitième.

2ºseptième.

6ºsixième (French grammar was begun).

5ºcinquième (Latin was begun).

6ºquatrième (Greek was begun).

7ºtroisième.

8ºseconde.

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9ºMathématiques élémentaires.Rhétorique.

10ºMathématiques spéciales.Philosophie.

The seconde students who intended to pass their baccalauréat ès sciences went into the mathématiques élémentaires class, whilst those who were destined for letters or the law entered the rhétorique class, from which they went on to the philosophie class. [Trans.]