The L’Art à l’école Society: school decoration and art education in Third-Republic schools in France

By opposing the rigid instruction of official art education at both primary and middle education in the early Third Republic, the L’Art à l’école Society, since its foundation in 1907, had elaborated sophisticated theories on the special relationship connecting children and art. The members’ productions and their propositions regarding the decoration of schools clearly convey their aesthetic, moral, and hygienic concerns for children.