You can read some of the story of France's experiments with Bourbakism in elementary education here, under the section about pedagogy: https://en.wikipedia.org

You can read some of the story of France's experiments with Bourbakism in elementary education here, under the section about pedagogy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Lichnerowicz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Lichnerowicz tl;dr: New Math began in France, and they were the first to recover from it.