Daily education rite of passage in French schools goes to the boulevard

Classroom dictation went massively public as a 5,000-person dictation took place in the middle of the Champs Elysees boulevard in Paris on Sunday. People ranging in age from 10 to 90 tried their hand at dictating several passages in an exercise that is well-known in public schools in France.

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