COMPAYRE, JULES GABRIEL ), French educationalist, was born at Albi on Jan. 2, 1843, and died on Feb. 24, 1913, in Paris. After holding various educational appoint ments he became in 188 i deputy for Lavaur in the chamber, and took an active part in the discussions on public education. De feated at the elections of 1889, he was appointed rector of the Academy of Poitiers in 189o, and five years later to the Academy of Lyons. His principal publications are his Histoire critique des doctrines de l'education en France (1879); Elements d'education civique (1881), a work placed on the index at Rome, but very widely read in the primary schools of France; Cours de pedagogie theorique et pratique (1885, i3th ed., ; L'evolution in tellectuelle et morale de l'enfant (1893) ; and a series of mono graphs on Les Grands Educateurs.