College de France

Coordinates : 48°50′57″N 002°20′44″E  /  48.84917°N 2.34556°E  / 48.84917; 2.34556
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College de France
Coat of arms of the College de France , given by Louis XIV with letters patent in 1699
Latin : Collegium Franciæ Regium
Former names
College royal , College imperial
Motto
Docet omnia ( Latin )
Motto in English
Teaches all
Type Public
Established 1530 ; 494 years ago  ( 1530 ) ( royal charter )
Founder Francis I of France
Affiliation PSL University , Consortium Couperin [1]
Administrator Thomas Romer
Academic staff
47 chairs (2016)
Location
Paris
,
France

48°50′57″N 002°20′44″E  /  48.84917°N 2.34556°E  / 48.84917; 2.34556
Campus Urban
Website www .college-de-france .fr
The primary entrance to the College de France

The College de France ( French pronunciation: [k?l?? d? f???s] ), formerly known as the College Royal or as the College imperial founded in 1530 by Francois I , is a higher education and research establishment ( grand etablissement ) in France . It is located in Paris near La Sorbonne . The College de France is considered to be France's most prestigious research establishment. [2] [3] It is an associate member of PSL University . [4]

Research and teaching are closely linked at the College de France , whose ambition is to teach "the knowledge that is being built up in all fields of literature, science and the arts". It offers high-level courses that are free , nondegree-granting and open to all without condition or registration. This gives it a special place in the French intellectual landscape.

Overview [ edit ]

As of 2021, 21 Nobel Prize winners and 9 Fields Medalists have been affiliated with the College. It does not grant degrees. Each professor is required to give lectures where attendance is free and open to anyone. Professors, about 50 in number, are chosen by the professors themselves, from a variety of disciplines, in both science and the humanities . The motto of the College is Docet Omnia , Latin for "It teaches everything"; its goal is to "teach science in the making" and can be best summed up by Maurice Merleau-Ponty 's phrase: "Not acquired truths, but the idea of freely-executed research" [5] which is inscribed in golden letters above the main hall.

The courtyard of the College de France

The College has research laboratories and one of the best research libraries of Europe, with sections focusing on history with rare books, humanities , social sciences and also chemistry and physics .

As of June 2009, over 650 audio podcasts of College de France lectures are available on iTunes. Some are also available in English and Chinese . Similarly, the College de France 's website hosts several videos of classes. The classes are followed by various students, from senior researchers to PhD or master's students, or even undergraduates. Moreover, the "lecons inaugurales" (first lessons) are important events in Paris intellectual and social life and attract a very large public of curious Parisians.

History [ edit ]

The College was established by King Francis I of France , modeled after the Collegium Trilingue in Louvain , at the urging of Guillaume Bude . Of humanist inspiration, the school was established as an alternative to the Sorbonne to promote such disciplines as Hebrew , Ancient Greek (the first teacher being the celebrated scholar Janus Lascaris ) and Mathematics . [6] Initially called College royal , and later College des trois langues (Latin, ancient Greek and Hebrew), College national , and College imperial , it was named College de France in 1870. In 2010, it became a founding associate of PSL Research University (a community of Parisian universities).

Administrators [ edit ]

Faculty [ edit ]

The faculty of the College de France currently comprises fifty-two Professors, elected by the Professors themselves from among Francophone scholars [7] in subjects including mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, history, archaeology, linguistics, oriental studies, philosophy, the social sciences and other fields. Two chairs are reserved for foreign scholars who are invited to give lectures.

Notable faculty members include Serge Haroche , awarded with Nobel Prize in Physics in 2012. Notably, eight Fields medal winners have been affiliated with the College.

Past faculty include:

See also [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ "Les membres de Couperin" , Couperin.org (in French), archived from the original on 17 November 2022 , retrieved 12 July 2018
  2. ^ Appelrouth, Scott; Edles, Laura Desfor (2008). Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory: Text and Readings . Pine Forge Press. p.  641 . ISBN   9780761927938 . OCLC   1148204416 .
  3. ^ John Culbert (2011). Paralyses: Literature, Travel, and Ethnography in French Modernity . U of Nebraska Press. p. 257. ISBN   978-0803234192 .
  4. ^ "Decree 2019-1130 creating Universite Paris sciences et lettres (Universite PSL)" . Archived from the original on 2020-07-23 . Retrieved 2020-07-23 .
  5. ^ "Non pas des verites acquises, mais l'idee d'une recherche libre". The entire sentence is in fact: "Ce que le College de France, depuis sa fondation, est charge de donner a ses auditeurs, ce ne sont pas des verites acquises, c'est l'idee d'une recherche libre." From Merleau-Ponty's inaugural lecture at the College de France, reproduced in: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Eloge de la philosophie et autres essais , Paris: Gallimard, 1989, p. 13.
  6. ^ Byzance et l'Europe : Colloque a la Maison de l'Europe, Paris, 22 avril 1994 , H. Antoniadis-Bibicou (Ed.), 2001, ISBN/ISSN/EAN: 291142720.
  7. ^ Francophone only in the sense that they have to be able to teach in French; they are not required to be native speakers of French or to come from or to have studied in a Francophone country: see for example Sanjay Subrahmanyam who is Indian: Sanjay Subrahmanyam's biography on the site of the College de France Archived 2017-12-01 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Guillaume Du Val (1644). Le College Royal de France. Institution, Establissement et Catalogue des Lecteurs et Professeurs Ordinaires du Roy (in French). Bovillette. p. 68 . Retrieved 16 January 2021 .
  9. ^ " Anne Cheng Biographie Archived 2017-04-01 at the Wayback Machine ." College de France. Retrieved on 11 December 2013.
  10. ^ (in French) Biography at College de France website Archived 2016-06-30 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ (in French) Biography at College de France website Archived 2018-08-25 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ (in French) Necrologie de M. Jean Yoyotte (1927?2009) par Christiane Zivie-Coche Archived 2014-09-08 at the Wayback Machine

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