Béziers

And he becomes a priest.

So then he travels to France as a missionary and becomes the first bishop of Béziers.

While there, he is martyred by a mob of angry pagans in, if I can pronounce this right, Place Sancier.

So he was beheaded.

On the morning of September 1st, in the seaside town of Le Touquet, a few hundred children pulled on matching t-shirts, blouses and caps and walked into school looking for a moment like they belonged to a single institution.

Down the coast, on the Mediterranean in Béziers and on the Corsican outcrop of Bonifacio, other children did exactly the same.

But according to an AFP dispatch, these towns are now the exception rather than the rule.

The last holdouts of an experiment that once promised to remake the look of French school children nationwide and that is instead fading out with barely a formal announcement.

According to a France Info regional report, the pilot ran in five of the city's schools in Reims for the 2024 rentrée, involving a little over 800 pupils in the first year and just under 700 in the second.

And it is now being warmed down entirely because the 2026 budget no longer includes the funding line that used to split the cost evenly between the state and the city.

A wider roundup from the public broadcaster regional service EC confirms that nationally the 2026 finance law sets aside no budget at all to continue co-financing the roughly 100 schools that had signed up since 2024, leaving only a handful of towns, Béziers among them, willing to shoulder the cost alone.

The education minister himself has been candid about why.