Je suis Macédonien - I am Macedonian!

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Today we quote a passage from a short essay by the French Emanuel Duvillard. A passage that is still worth mentioning even today.

About the author:

Emanuel Duvillard (1887-1936) was the chairman of the "Committee for the Defense of Victims of Terrorism in the Balkans" in Geneva. 

Born in Lyon, Emanuel Duvillard entered the Geneva primary school as an intern at the age of 20. He became immediately interested in child psychology and followed Claparde's lessons. Immediately after its opening, this early companion became a lecturer at the Rousseau Institute for a course with practical exercises in pedagogy and experimental didactics, which was offered until 1925.

Emanuel Duvillard

In the meantime, Malche, who had recognized his talent and ability to work, hired him in 1918 with the Bureau of Educational Archives and Research, where Duvillard carried out research mainly focused on academic performance. In the same year he was elected President of the Union des Institutors Primary Genevois (UIPG). From 1920 to 1924 he was head of the Société Pedagogique Romande (SPR) office.

From 1927 the mandate of the Presidium was increasingly administrative. In 1932 he became director of the special classes and the service for cinematography and school projections, then inspector of the outdoor schools and responsible for the preschool classes, the career advice department, the children's office, the Maison des Charmilles for "difficult" children and at the same time a socialist city council! All these functions and loads led to his sudden death on October 10, 1936 in front of the open-air school in Varembé.

Above all, Emanuel Duvillard was a tireless mediator of ideas between the Rousseau Institute and the educational sector. From 1927 he withdrew from the institute, monopolized by his responsibility on other stages, and then found himself isolated. Without this tireless campaigner for disadvantaged groups, however, the institute would undoubtedly not have had its full influence on the teaching body of Geneva and French-speaking Switzerland.

Je suis Macédonien - I am Macedonian!


In the article mentioned, we read that Duvillard was the chairman of the "Committee for the Defense of Victims of Terrorism in the Balkans" in Geneva. As you could read about the author in the introduction, Duvillard campaigned for disadvantaged population groups. So also for the Macedonians.

A short quote from his work is worth mentioning, as Duvillard writes:

...Are you Serb? Are you Bulgarian, Greek or Albanian? The Macedonian people gave the same answer to this chain of questions, today and yesterday: I am Macedonian!



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