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Collège de France

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A long-lasting Renaissance creation, the Collège de France was precariously founded under King Francis I thanks to Parisian humanists who asked the monarchy to protect free studies on ancient and oriental tongues against the powerful, traditional Sorbonne University. The professorship of Petrus Ramus, from 1551 to his assassination in 1572, set the acme of sixteenth century’s Institution des Lecteurs Royaux. Its building was not officially decided before King Henri IV and was opened after 1610, under Louis XIII. Less brilliant during the seventeenth century, and then called Collège royal, it still allowed new disciplines, ranging from languages and history to maths through medicine, to be taught in stable conditions and at international standards by French or foreigner scholars.

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Sanchi, LA. (2022). Collège de France. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14169-5_292

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