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Bored, that smock you mention, was called a "tablard" I think. It was purely for practical reasons, at the time writing was a messy business with ink going all over the place.
Excellent post by WE. It made me think as to why uniform where not introduced in French school, it is after all a country where the military had a lot of prestige as well and "esprit de corps" is a notion familiar to the French as well
Bored, that smock you mention, was called a "tablard" I think. It was purely for practical reasons, at the time writing was a messy business with ink going all over the place.
Excellent post by WE. It made me think as to why uniform where not introduced in French school, it is after all a country where the military had a lot of prestige as well and "esprit de corps" is a notion familiar to the French as well
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