The FallouxLaws promoted Catholic schools in France in the 1850s, 1860s and 1870s. They were voted in during the French Second Republic and promulgated
Frédéric-Alfred-Pierre, comte de Falloux (7 May 1811 – 6 January 1886) was a French politician and author, famous for having given his name to two laws on education, favoring
of Pius IX," he wrote to Montalembert.[citation needed] He found the FallouxLaws a disappointment despite their attempt to establish a degree of freedom
an important role during the debates leading to the adoption of the FallouxLaws in 1850–1851, which greatly increased the clergy's influence on education
which he intended to overturn the FallouxLaws by embracing the anti-clerical thinking of the Philosophes. These laws ended the Catholic Church's involvement