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Previous | Home | Next"In1530 Francois the 1st instructed Guillaume Budé to found the "Collegium regium Galliarum" (Royal College of Gaul); six instructors in the humanities were gathered -- two in Greek, three in Hebrew, and one in mathematics -- a university "built in men, not in stones." Growth of the university was hampered by the assassination of Henri IV. Nine years of age, Louis XIII in 1610 laid the first stone of a building, resumed by Chalgrin in 1773. At the end of "the old regime" [before the French Revolution], there were twenty [professorial] chairs, which were . . ." [continued next photo]
Guillaume Budé (1647-1540) was a French scholar who was sent by Louis XII to Rome as French ambassador.
Jean Chalgrin (1739-1811) was a French architect, best known for designing the Arc de Triomphe
