Editors' PrefaceI.ChronologyII. Historical PerspectivesViolaine Houdart-Merot"Literary Education in the Lycee: Crises, Continuity, and Upheaval since 1880" Martine Jey"The Literature of the Enlightenment: An Impossible Legacy for the Republican School" Anne-Marie Chartier"When French Schoolchildren were Introduced to Literature (1920-1940)" Gilbert Chaitin"Education and Political Identity: The Universalist Controversy"III. Education Outside of the School, Outside of FranceRalph Albanese"Corneille as a Cultural Icon in France from the Third Republic to Today" Sabine Loucif"French in American Universities: Toward the Reshaping of Frenchness""" Brigitte Weltman-Aron"The Pedagogy of Colonial Algeria: Djebar, Cixous, Derrida"IV. The Persistent ControversyPierre Albertini"Why Kevin's Teacher Can't Teach" Jean-Louis Chiss"The Crisis in the Teaching of French and the Status of the Reference to Linguistics" Dan Savatovsky"The Founding and Refounding of French as a Discipline" Tzvetan Todorov"Reading and Living"