College of Navarre
The Collège de Navarre was a College of the former University of Paris. It was founded in 1304 by Joan I of Navarre, wife of the French king Philip IV in the premises of their Hôtel de Navarre in the Rue Saint -André des Arts. End of the 14th century, the Collège de Navarre had newly constructed building on the Montagne Sainte -Geneviève, based on the rue de la Montagne -Sainte- Genevièveam at the beginning of today's Rue Descartes.
Access to the school was free of social and agricultural mannschaftlicher origin. Were taught the three subjects grammar, logic, theology, but not medicine and law. The school was from the beginning a Grand Master, who oversaw the training company.
During the French Revolution, the College was dissolved. In his building and the adjacent Collège de Boncourt 1805 fed the École Polytechnique, founded in 1794.
Famous students and teachers
- Nicole Oresme (1325-1382)
- Pierre d' Ailly ( 1350/1-1420 )
- Jean Charlier de Gerson (1363-1429)
- Peter of Luxembourg (1369-1387)
- Pedro de Lerma (1461-1541)
- Octavien de Saint- Gelais (1468-1502)
- John Ravisius (1480-1524)
- Oronce Finé (1494-1555)
- Jean Hennuyer (1497-1578)
- Francisco de Xavier (1506-1552)
- Jacques Amyot (1513-1593)
- Pierre de la Ramee (1515-1572)
- Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585)
- François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières (1543-1626)
- François d' Amboise (1550 - 1619)
- Thomas Dempster (1579-1625)
- Armand- Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu (1585-1642)
- Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704)
- André- Hercule de Fleury (1653-1743)
- Jean -Antoine Nollet (1700-1770)
- Jean Goulin (1728-1799)
- Jean Marie du Lau (1738-1792)
- Charles -François Lebrun (1739-1824)
- Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-1794)
- André Chénier (1762-1794)
- Marie -Joseph Chénier (1764-1811)
- Étienne Geoffroy Saint- Hilaire (1772-1844)
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