[Ohiogift] 18th Century Class Day

[Will Fitzhugh]

“So in February 1778, the new commissioner [John Adams] and his son [11-year-old John Quincy Adams] boarded the frigate Boston and headed into a stormy ocean. Despite a harrowing crossing, they arrived safely in Bordeaux on April 1. Seven days later they reached Paris, where Benjamin Franklin, already in residence, invited them to stay at his home in Passy, a suburb near the Bois de Boulogne. Johnny entered a private boarding school at Passy run by Monsieur Le Coeur, where he studied French, Latin, and mathematics, along with fencing, dancing, and drawing. Several other American boys attended the school, including William Templeton Franklin and Benjamin Franklin Bache, the grandsons of Benjamin Franklin. Classes began at 6 in the morning and continued for two hours, after which they were given a sixty-minute respite for breakfast and play. Then there were classes from 9 to noon, 2 to 4:30P.M., and 5 to 7:30. In between times the students were allowed recreation and meals. They retired at 9P.M.”   

Robert V. Remini, John Quincy Adams
New York: Times Books, 2002, p. 6

[ten hours of class a day...WF]



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