Thinking about school meal offers in Brazil and Portugal from French hygienism in the

It starts from the perspective that school feeding is inherent to the school culture itself. In this way, the objective of this article is to understand the awakening of the need to offer meals in a school environment in Brazil and Portugal from the influence of French hygienism in the dawn of the twentieth century. This perception is based on the speeches on the provision of meals by French school canteens at the School Hygiene and Physiological Pedagogy Congresses that took place in Paris in the years 1903, 1905 and 1910. Thus, the presence of Brazilian and Portuguese scientists in the events in question suggests that they could have been influenced to understand the conclusions of French hygienists as models of school canteens that could be internationalized.

Keywords:
school meals; School Hygiene Congresses and Physiological Pedagogy; Brazil and Portugal