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This article examines the important pedagogical and political contributions of Marie Dugard, a Parisian secondary school teacher of girls and an inquisitive traveller. Her informed journey to the United States as a young educator, including participation in the World’s Fair and school visits across the country, gave her unprecedented comparative experiential means to question equivalent French education and expectations for girls. Dugard’s own education in America reveals how she probes the gender politics of French education for girls at the time of Ferry’s reforms as part of the Third Republic’s move to return France to the world industrial and colonial stage. Reading Dugard’s incisive travel narrative against her later works and engagement shows the transformative effect of her visit to the New World.