The article considers the French educational system. Author analyses the history and peculiarities of French education development, and evaluates it in comparison with other European countries and Russia. They pay attention to the right of education for women, stopped at the characteristics of education on each of it stage: from primary school, moving to the middle school till high school, and at the end on the CAP. They make an important conclusion, that French’s education system has much common with other EU nations, what permits the students from the European Union to find a job quicker in any of the twenty eight countries due to the fact that the systems resemble one another.