History It was founded at the time of Francis I , when in 1530 his "master library", the great translator of ancient works Guillaume Bude , he suggested that a panel of "Royal Readers". Humanists paid by the King, are responsible for teaching subjects that the University of Paris did not know. Two faculty positions were initially created, one for Greek and one for Hebrew , then this number increased rapidly with ten law teaching French, Latin , and mathematics and medicine. Therefore the Royal College, whose motto is "omnia Docet (He teaches at all), will remain one of the places of excellence in knowledge transfer in France.
The Royal College by Claude Chatillon - 1612
It was during the reign of Henry II, he held his current position, first housed in the Colleges of Trguier and Cambrai. Their meeting was decided by Henry IV and the proposed building of a single order to replace them and also install the Royal Library. Chastillon Claude had to draw appearance. The assassination of King limitations of project implementation and only some of the college was carried out under the regency of Marie de Medici (1612) . The latest changes date from the mid nineteenth century. They were led by architect Paul Letarouilly which gave its present appearance at the College de France . From 1996 work is carried out with the aim of creating new spaces in the basement.
Originally called "Royal College, he met different names (Imperial College), before receiving its current name in 1870.
The College de France inspired at the end of the Enlightenment , the founders of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers.
In 2009, the College de France agrees to sponsor the College Belgium , summer freely modeled on its sister Paris, placed on the auspices of the Royal Academies of Science, Humanities and Fine Arts , Language and French Literature and Medicine of Belgium . The following year, 2010, for the first time in its history, the College de France is partnering with other institutions of higher education and research by creating the Foundation Science and Letters Paris - Latin Quarter .
Missions
Currently, the College is divided into seven groups of disciplines (mathematics, physical sciences, natural sciences, philosophical and sociological sciences, historical, philological and archaeological). There are 57 chairs, ranging from 'cellular communications "( Jean-Pierre Changeux ) to "differential equations and dynamical systems" ( Jean-Christophe Yoccoz ) through the "history of syncretism of late antiquity" ( Michel Tardieu ) and the "philosophy of language and knowledge" ( Jacques Bouveresse ), which must be added the many European leading scientists who are regularly invited. Since 2004 , a new chair of artistic creation has been established.
The College de France provides non-degree courses in these high-level scientific and literary. Education is free and open to all without registration, which makes it a place apart in French intellectual life. A famous photograph shows the crowd who came to listen to Henri Bergson and part of which was to take the course, or attempt to do so from outside the room (open windows).
The College de France promotes interdisciplinarity as evidenced, for example, the work of the Chair of Philosophy of Knowledge , occupied by Jules Vuillemin from 1962 to 1990, and addressing disciplinary fields as diverse as mathematics pure (algebra, geometry , analysis), physical theory (astronomy, relativity, quantum mechanics, chaos), the engineering sciences , the philosophy and the humanities, Greek and Latin.
The College de France makes several of its publications available free of charge on the Web
Antenna
There is a branch of the College of France located in the Mediterranean Europle Arbois Aix-en-Provence , in conjunction with the University Paul Czanne - Aix-Marseille III. This appendix is devoted to climate risks and seismotectonic and hosts, among other researchers Xavier Le Pichon (Chair of Geodynamics ) and Edouard Bard (Chair of Climate Change and Ocean).
Chairs and incumbents
Courtyard of the College of France, overlooking the Rue Saint-Jacques.
Chairs of the College of France are not immutable and have a great diversity in their name. Since its creation under Francis I , which gives this unique institution is a nimble, they can evolve according to the achievements of science and research. This shift in the incumbent's departure (death, retirement). She is very open because science can succeed to the letters and letters to mathematics. The faculty assembly decides to these changes and awards chair for a scholar, not only on his academic credentials - without, however, that this element is the rule - but first on the reputation and importance of its work.
- Mathematical Sciences:
- Physical Sciences:
- Natural Sciences:
- Philosophical and sociological sciences:
- Historical Sciences, philological and archaeological
- Chair of artistic creation (annual chair): Anselm Kiefer (2010)
Major Speakers
Commemorative plaque in front of the old laboratory of Claude Bernard overlooking the
Rue des Ecoles.
Pierre Bourdieu , who taught there, called him a "sacred place of heretics." Among the professors who taught at the College de France include:
Also include teachers rewarded a Nobel Prize :
and by a Fields Medal :
and the first Abel Prize :
Each teacher is elected by all its peers. Chairs cover various fields, and sometimes a more thematic and disciplinary.
Teachers often provide some of their conferences in France or abroad. Many courses and lectures at the Collge de France is available on its website and available in audio or video. Some, however, are broadcast on France Culture .
College Library
Since 1936, the College has collected the works in his possession in a general library, special libraries are developing with a few chairs.
Its library of Egyptology is specialized on the Pharaonic Egypt , the Egyptian Christian , on language hieroglyphic , hieratic , demotic and Coptic , the history and archeology of Egypt and Nubia. It preserves the archives of science professors and the chair of French and foreign Egyptologists.
Egyptology
The College de France hosts the headquarters of the French Society of Egyptology (Secretariat: 22 rue entry Bernardine, Paris V e).
The building
The main building is designed by architect Jean-Francois Chalgrin in 1780. It is surrounded by buildings of modern laboratories. Two other buildings are vested in the College de France in Paris, near the Pantheon and near the Ministry of Research.
Chairholders
Philosophy of Knowledge
Natural history
- In 1837, this chair is split into two: a chair of natural history of inorganic body, held by Elie de Beaumont until 1874, and a chair of natural history of organic bodies.
Natural history of the organic
Comparative Embryology
Anatomy
Medicine
Chair created in 1769.
Chair of artistic creation
annual chair created in 2004
Chair of Technological Innovation - Liliane Bettencourt
Chair created in 2007. . The holder of this chair is renewed each year to promote education at the forefront of research.
Access
The College de France is accessible by subway 
Cluny - La Sorbonne , and several lines of bus RATP 
RATP 63 86 87
References
- Alexandre Gady, "From the Royal College at the College de France," in Christian Hottin (ed.), Universities and colleges in Paris: the palace of science, Paris, Action artistic city of Paris, 1999 ( ISBN 2 - 913246-03-6 ), p. 79-88, especially p. 79.
- Alexandre Gady, "From the Royal College ... , Especially p. 80.
- Alexandre Gady, "From the Royal College ... , Especially p. 84-85.
- News, 21 January 2010 on the site of the Royal Academy of Belgium.
- Five major schools in Paris created a foundation in Le Monde of 16 April 2010.
- http://www.college-de-france.fr/default/EN/all/pub_elec/index.htm : inaugural lectures , conferences , directory of the College de France ...
- platform multimedia website of the College de France.
- page devoted to the partnership with France Culture.
- Source: * Toby A. Call (1987). The Cuvier-Geoffrey Debate: French Biology in the Decades Before Darwin, Oxford University Press , Monographs on the History collection and Philosophy of Biology: 241. ( ISBN 0195041380 )
- Press release on the inauguration of the Chair of Technological Innovation - Collge de France - Fondation Bettencourt Schueller
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