Bilingualism has obvious advantages in terms of opportunities and development of communication skills, but learning a foreign language from an early age also promotes cognitive and socio-emotional development.
In France, school is compulsory from 3 to 16 years old. The Jules Ferry laws of 1881 and 1882 gave the French state the obligation to provide free and secular education for all. The Ministry of National Education therefore offers a single curriculum, followed by the 12,409,900 pupils who started school in September 2018.
