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which they opened in 1638. In their schools, they taught in French, rather than the Latin used in the Jesuit schools. They had a curriculum which taught contemporary literature and the sciences. Their students learned modern foreign languages as opposed to the
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living together in community. However, BĂ©rulle felt that the situation in France required a tighter organizational structure than Neri's communities in Italy, so the French
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