HENRI

See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

FRANCOIS

See also:

• MARION
• MARION, FRANCIS (1732-1795)
• HENRI FRANCOIS MARION (1846-1896)

MARION (1846-1896)  , French philosopher and educationalist, was born at Saint-Parize-en-Viry (Nievre) on the 9th of September 1846 . He studied at Nevers, and at the &tole Normale, where he graduated in 1868 . After occupying several minor positions, he returned to Paris in 1875•as professor . of the Lycee Henri IV., and in 188o he became docteur-es-lettres . In the same year he was elected a member of the Council of Public Instruction, and devoted himself to improving the scheme of French education, especially in girls' schools . He was largely instrumental in the foundation of ecoles normales in provincial towns, and himself gave courses of lectures on psychology and practical ethics in their early days . He died in Paris on the 5th of April 1896 . His chief philosophical works were an edition of the Theodicee of Leibnitz (1874), a monograph on Locke (1878), Devoirs et droits de 1'homme (188o), Glissonius utrum Leibnitio de natura substantiae cogitanti quidquam tribuerit (188o) ; De La solidarite morale (4th ed., 1893) . His lectures at Fontenoy have been published in two volumes entitled Lecons de psychologie appliquee a l'education, and Lecons de morale; those delivered at the Sorbonne are collected in L'Education clans l'universite (1892) .