Abbé Aloïsius Édouard Camille Gaultier (

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, 1745 or 1746 -

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, 19 September 1818) was a French

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priest and educational reformer. In 1792 he left France during the worst of the Revolution, passing via Holland to England where he set up a school for the children of other refugees.Educational record: Volume 17 British and Foreign School Society - 1907 "Another was L'Abbe Gaultier, himself an educational reformer in a humble way, who had written school books and essays on teaching. L'Abbe Gaultier had long resided in England, and before returning to France had become a complete convert .." He was a pioneer in getting children to learn through amusing them and was made a member of the commission for the reorganization of

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. He wrote a large number of books, such as ''Géographie de l'abbé Gaultier'', that became popular as instructional books in Nineteenth Century

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