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The creation of the consistorial school in Paris is part of the whole planning to regenerate the poor Jews which was ordered by the Napoleon Empire and supported by the prominent Jews of Paris in order to make their mise-rable coreligionists become French citizens of israelite religion more rapidly. These projects were started as early as 1812, and the school for boys opens in 1819, that for girls in 1822. From the start, they adhere to the method of mutual teaching, which was then popular, and they offer a free and original educational program : a gene-ral teaching centered on the knowledge of the French language and a basic jewish religious education ; this is a way to learn the Hebraic language and thus to foster a specificity going beyond the sole religion. Because of various hardnesses, the city of Paris was impelled to take charge of these schools as early as 1833.