Vocational training is not a creation of the xixth century, it has existed a long time before. However, it is only around 1860 that one begins to look at it closely, and is the 1880' s that it begins its real development under parliamentary supervision. The government of the nird Republic wished to promote this type of training through the creation of the Ecoles Normales Professionnelles (Teachers 'Training Colleges for Vocational Training) in the departments where the needs to train skilled workers were particularly obvious. This is how the Armentières E.N.P. was created in 1882. But far from enjoying a unanimous welcome when the decree was signed, this college was to meet numerous problems of installation. The stakes were high fot the gov...