École Nationale des Chartes

The École Nationale des Chartes (French for about National School of document research ) is a typical French elite universities, grandes écoles of. It is the leading French teaching and research facility in the auxiliary historical sciences and the role of training especially of archivists, curators and librarians of the higher service. It is located in Paris at the Sorbonne premises. Your students or " Eleven" call themselves " chartistes ".

Recording and financial statements

Access is typical of the Grandes Ecoles, on entrance examinations ( concours ), either:

  • The "classical" Concours A with emphasis on Medieval History and Medieval Latin, or
  • The "modern " Concours B with a focus on Modern and Contemporary History and newer foreign languages.

In principle, the High School ( baccalauréat ) is considered a prerequisite for admission to the Concours, but in practice only those high school seniors an opportunity that have managed to visit two years of relevant preparatory classes, to which access is restricted. So has the École itself in preparation for the Concours A a two-year course at the " hypo charte " and so-called " charte ". The Concours B is also bestehbar for graduates of the so-called " hypokhâgnes " and " khâgnes ", ie the preparatory classes that are set up at selected high schools ( lycées ) and lead to elite high schools for the humanities and the teaching subjects, the Écoles normal supérieures.

The number of students admitted to the École des Chartes is set (about 25 for both Concours, which should correspond approximately to the number of jobs available for the graduates later ) for each year taken before. Therefore, the ratio of non- admitted is high. However, these are not considered as failed, but can enroll in general in the third year of an appropriate course of study at a university, where they were in the preparatory classes completed two years of full time study to be counted.

The supervision of students is as excellent at all Grandes Écoles. On the approximately 100 students come about 30 professors and lecturers. The curriculum is open to some extent, students from other universities and even individuals interested in Paris. Conversely, use of certain courses at other universities, the students of the École.

Students of the Ecole des Chartes are " élèves fonctionnaires - stagiaires ", ie government employees, and therefore receive a salary (currently about 1,200 euros ). Your degree takes three years plus nine months, in which they write a thesis, the " thèse d' établissement ". College dropouts are rare.

The award of the Ecole des Chartes diploma of " Archivist palaeographers " ( archiviste - paléographe ) corresponds to a diploma prestige the grandes écoles.

For some time, the degree of Masters can be purchased. The possibility of promotion is offered in cooperation with two Parisian universities. It is usually tied to the membership of a graduate school ( école doctorale ).

History

The École des Chartes owes its establishment to the general enthusiasm of the medieval romance, that is, the period of 1820s and 30s, and especially the fact that the state of the French Revolution in the possession of many archives of monasteries, noble families, etc. had come, whose stocks had to be spotted and secured.

The first college under the name École des Chartes (still without the attribute national) completed only two years after its launch on 22 February 1821. By decree of November 11, 1829, she was re-established and was released in 1834 the first graduates. She was first housed in the former Royal Library, and from 1862 in a former Parisian nobility palace next to the Hôtel de Soubise, the seat of the National Archives. Since 1897 she resided in the Sorbonne.

The École des Chartes has traditionally been considered a bastion of conservatism and mainly drew students from middle-class family. After all, the first apprentice in 1906 was recorded.

To the extent, as in the last decades new techniques have found their way into the future occupations of the students and must be taught and learned, the conservative Image lost.

Publications

The Societé de l' École des Chartes published since 1839, the " Bibliothèque de l' École des Chartes ," one of the oldest still existing historical journals.

Known graduates

Historian

  • Jean Favier, medievalist
  • Robert Fossier, medievalist
  • Arthur Giry, historians
  • Gaston Paris, philologist
  • Régine Pernoud, medievalist
  • Jean -Claude Schmitt, medievalist

Politician

Writer

  • Georges Bataille
  • René Girard, writer and philosopher, member of the Académie française
  • Roger Martin du Gard, Nobel Prize in Literature 1937
  • François Mauriac, José -Maria de Heredia and André -Ferdinand Herold attended the École without studying complete.
Modern history Jean-Claude Schmitt France Institut Catholique de Paris
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