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Educational Administration and Politics: The Collège of Louis-Le-Grand, 1763–1790

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Charles R. Bailey
Charles R. Bailey*
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SUNY-GENESEO, New York
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In 1682 Louis XIV made the important collège (secondary school) of the Jesuits, formerly called Clermont, a royal foundation, and it assumed the name Louis-le-Grand in honor of its illustrious patron. Those fathers continued to hold the school until April 1762 when the Parlement of Paris, the realm's most important court of law, forced them to cease instruction. In the following August the Parlement went further, dissolving the Society of Jesus within its jurisdiction and forcing the fathers to abandon the collège. During those eighty years, and even beyond, the collège itself was, in comparison to other such institutions in France, as “great” as the appellation of its patron. It was large (having nearly 3000 students prior to 1762, although fewer than 600 after that date) and prestigious (having many famous students, including Voltaire and Turgot prior to 1762 and Maximillian Robespierre after the Jesuits departed). It was, in short, one of a handful of very important collèges of the realm, along with such others as Mazarin (Quatre-Nations) within Paris and La Flèche and Juilly outside it.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , Fall 1979 , pp. 333 - 350
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Copyright © 1979 by History of Education Society 

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