Collège de France
Collège de France (kôlĕzh´ də fräNs), institution of higher learning founded in Paris, France, in 1529 by Francis I at the instigation of Guillaume Budé. It was founded to encourage humanistic studies and has always been independent of any university and free from supervision. Its lectures are open to the public without matriculation or fee. It gives no examinations and grants no certificates or degrees. Now its range of studies encompasses numerous humanistic and scientific fields. Its faculty includes many distinguished scholars.
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Anatole France , France, Anatole
BORN: 1844, Paris, France
DIED: 1924, Tours, France
NATIONALITY: French
GENRE: Drama, fiction, poetry
MAJOR WORKS:
The Crime of Sylve… Jean-etienne Guettard , geology, natural history, botany.
A versatile scientist trained in medicine and chemistry, Guettard gradually acquired knowledge of the various branc… Raoul Blanchard , Blanchard, Raoul
b. Orléans, France, 4 Septemper 1877; d. Paris, France, 24 March 1965)
geography.
Blanchard graduated from the École Normale Supérie… Victor Vasarely , Personal
Born April 9, 1908, in Pecs, Hungary; died of prostate cancer March 15, 1997, in Paris, France; naturalized French citizen, 1959; married Cl… Pierre Mendes-france , Pierre Mendès France
Although Pierre Mendès France (1907-1982) only held the prime ministry for seven months and spent most of his political career c… Charles Jules Henri Nicolle , medicine, bacteriology.
Nicolle grew up in Rouen, where his father, Eugène Nicolle, was a physician at the municipal hospital and professor of natura…
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