Henri François Marion
French philosopher & scholar
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Henri François Marion was a French philosopher and educationalist. Life He was born in Saint-Parize-en-Viry, Nièvre department, on 9 September 1846. He studied at Nevers, and at the École Normale, where he graduated in 1868. After occupying several minor positions, he returned to Paris in 1875 as professor of the Lycée Henri IV, and in 1880 he became Docteur ès 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 5 April 1896.
