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For approximately a century, since the birth of Uruguay as a republic until the first decades of the XXth century, French culture was the most influential in every manifestation of local culture: arts, literature, sciences and fashion. The indispensable vehicle for the transmission of that culture was, of course, the language, so that learning French was a self-imposed necessity. This study goes over the main stages that can be recognized in the teaching of the French language in the country, since the first years of independent life until the foundation of the Lycée Français, in 1922. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]