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An extract was also published in the same year under the title 'Exercises manuel dans les ecoles du degre primaire' which contained the same material on paperfolding.

A full copy of the full work can be accessed at L'Enseignement manuel dans les écoles du degré primaire (garçons), par René Leblanc,... | Gallica (bnf.fr)

A copy of the extract can be accessed at Exercices manuels dans les écoles du degré primaire, commentaire illustré des programmes officiels... : extrait de l'"Enseignement manuel" / par René Leblanc,... | Gallica (bnf.fr)

The full work contains a useful first chapter entitled 'Apercu historique' which sets out the development of the practice of manual exercises in French education from 1882 to 1889.

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Pliage preliminaires / Preliminary paperfolds

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Folding an octagon from a square / Le Filtre (The Filter)

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La moitie ou le double d'un carre / Halving or quartering the square

La table caree / The Table /

Moulin ou cocotte / The Windmill / The Cocotte (mentioned but not illustrated)

Pliage en rosace / The Windmill Base

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Rosaces derivees du carre / Folds of Beauty

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Chapeau de gendarme / The Newspaper Hat

Bateau / The Paper Boat

Boite de patissier / The Patisserie Box

Cube (variant of the boite de patissier folded from a 5x3 sheet of paper)

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This page explains how to fold an angle of 60 degrees (by eye alone). If the triangle MNO is then cut out it can be unfolded to form, successively, a losange (diamond), a trapeze isocele (isosceles trapezium) and a hexagone (hexagon).

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Rosaces derivees de l'hexagone / Rosettes derived from the hexagon

This page gives two ways to fold the pattern of a six-pointed star within a hexagon (which can then be cut out) and for folding a Rosace hexagonal (Hexagonal rosette).

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Strip Folding

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Examples of folded and cut designs made by children from the Ecole Salicis.

Pictures 1 and 2 of Planche I have been folded from hexagons.

The text on page 74 states that Figure 2 of Planche III has been folded from a pentagon.

Pictures 5 and 6 of Planche II appear to have possibly been made from folded modules, although this is not referenced in the text.

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These illustrations show examples of facing pages from a workbook. The larger sheet of paper in the top left image appears to have been folded, though the text does not reference this.

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