Ferdinand Buisson

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Ferdinand Édouard Buisson (December 20, 1841February 16, 1932) was a French academic, educational bureaucrat, Protestant pastor, pacifist and Socialist politician. He presided the Human Rights League (LDH) from 1914 to 1926.

Buisson helped create France's system of universal, secular primary education in the 1880's.

He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1927.

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