The origins of the Collège de France date back to 1530, when King Francis I accepted a proposal from his librarian, the great humanist Guillaume Budé, to appoint "lecturers royaux". These were to be financially secure and independent in subjects active and committed to young humanism but proscribed by the University of Paris, which was ruled by the orthodox theologians of the Sorbonne. These subjects were initially Hebrew and ancient Greek, whose study the Sorbonne had recently banned (1529), as well as classical Latin. A little later came (French) law, mathematics and medicine added.
The name of the new scholarship college was Collège Royal or Collège des trois langues (or Latin Collegium Trilingue, in reference to an older institution in the vicinity of the University of Leuven). It was the first institution of higher education in France that was deliberately set aside by the universities, as they seemed dominated and encrusted by yesterday's theologians and lawyers. After the revolution, the Collège was renamed Collège national, to change in the 19th century, depending on the regime several times the name: Collège impérial, royal, national, impérial and finally since 1870 Collège de France.
His Latin motto is since its founding: docet omnia, dt. "(It) teaches everything".
Its foundation dates back to the time of Francis I. In 1530 his master librarian, the great translator of ancient works Guillaume Budé, suggested that he create a college of dissertations in charge of teaching the disciplines disdained by the Sorbonne: Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and mathematics. From then on, the Collège Royal, under the Latin motto Docet omnia ("Teaching everything"), will be one of the most important places for the transmission of knowledge in France.
The Collège de France, formerly known as the Collège Royal, is a major French educational and research institution, established by François I in 1530. It is located on Place Marcelin-Berthelot in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, in the heart of the Latin Quarter.
Research and teaching are closely linked to the Collège de France, which aims to teach "the knowledge that is being formed in all fields of literature, science and the arts". It provides high-level courses that are free, non-degree-granting and open to all without conditions or registration. This makes it a unique place in the French university landscape.
Being elected professor at the Collège de France, that is to say becoming the holder of a chair, is one of the highest distinctions in French higher education. The Collège has around fifty chairs, the purpose of which changes according to the latest developments in science (a chair may, for example, be devoted to literature after having been devoted to mathematics), and whose holder is elected by his peers according to his previous work and not his academic qualifications. They give their holder a particular influence in his discipline, in France and also abroad. As part of its international policy, in 2009 the Collège de France established a host chair at the Collège Belgique, an initiative of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts, of French Language and Literature and of Medicine of Belgium. The following year, in 2010, for the first time in its history, the Collège de France joined forces with other higher education and research institutions by creating the Paris Sciences et Lettres - Quartier Latin foundation. The success of the project presented by Paris Sciences et Lettres to the Initiatives of Excellence (Idex) in 2011 committed the Collège de France to the creation of an international research university.
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