Luc Ferry was Minister of National Education at the time of the adoption of the law. Ferry defends a balanced text which aimed to prevent communitarianism from taking hold at school.

President Chirac had one day, after leaving a Council of Ministers, asked me if by chance I had an idea on the school to submit to him for a major speech that he was preparing. Anti-Semitic violence had experienced a sudden increase during the year 2000 due to refraction… This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 80% left to discover.