Palmer The School of the French Revolution

A Documentary History of the College of Louis-le-Grand and its Director, Jean-François Champagne, 1762-1814
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7063-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

The College of Louis-le-Grand, now the premier lycée of France, is the only school with a connected history of education from the ancien régime to modern times. It was the only school never to close during the French Revolution, and its experience offers a new perspective on the fate of educational institutions in times of revolutionary change. In this book a noted historian describes the French college of the ancien régime and tells how it withstood crises of dissolution and reconstruction, dispersion of teachers and students, academic radicalism, loss of endowments, war, inflation, and political terror, to emerge in 1808 as a key element in Napoleon's Imperial University.

R. R. Palmer's introduction illuminates the original documents, which are here translated for the first time. These documents supply valuable insight not only into the school's history, but also into the origins of the modern French educational system. From them emerges a portrait of the school's remarkable director, Jean-François Champagne, who guided his institution through the calamitous years of the Revolution.

Originally published in 1975.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Palmer, R. R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Acknowledgments, pg. v
Contents and Chronology, pg. vii
Illustrations, pg. 1
Introduction, pg. 9
1. A new college for scholarship students is established, pg. 43
2. Social origins of the students, pg. 45
3. An abortive suggestion for a modern university, pg. 47
4. A program of teacher training is launched, pg. 49
5. Regulations of the college, pg. 52
6. Rules on admission of new scholarship students, pg. 71
7. A special prize is awarded to Maximilien de Robespierre, pg. 71
8. Regulations for the chief cook, pg. 72
9. Regulations for law students, pg. 75
10. A minor philosophe shows his scorn for the colleges, pg. 77
11. Distribution of scholarship students by level of studies, pg. 80
12. A former professor at Louisle- Grand defends the University of Paris, pg. 81
13. The University salutes the Revolution, pg. 86
14. A student petition requests reform, pg. 87
15. A deputation of students appears before the National Assembly, pg. 91
16. Signsofstudentradicalism, pg. 92
17. A professor writes a radical book on education, pg. 97
18. The ten professors at the College in 1790-91 and 1794-95, pg. 105
19. Champagne's first problem as principal, pg. 106
20. Champagne reports agitation among the students, pg. 110
21. Champagne reports more student unrest, pg. 112
22. The Department of Paris takes a dim view of the colleges, pg. 113
23. Champagne again on student disorders, pg. 115
24. Students volunteering for the army are assured of keeping their scholarships, pg. 118
25. The College is disrupted by the quartering of soldiers, pg. 120
26. Champagne describes the senior scholarships at Equality College, pg. 122
27. The National Convention orders the sale of all college endowments, pg. 125
28. Champagne reports that the Equality College must close unless aided financially, pg. 132
29. Champagne reports statistics on College income and expenses, pg. 134
30. Equality College and its director are denounced as aristocrats, pg. 142
31. The College's cash and silver are confiscated, pg. 145
32. The College library is confiscated, pg. 146
33. Champagne reports on the difficulties of the preceding years and the present state of the College, pg. 148
34. Champagne offers a plan for the Scholarship Institute, pg. 155
35. Two scholarship students return from the wars, pg. 163
36. The further sale of college endowments is halted, pg. 166
37. A Catholic journalist denounces a "college of atheists", pg. 169
38. Champagne publishes his Politics of Aristotle, pg. 172
39. Champagne's Aristotle is noted in the Ministry of the Interior, pg. 174
40. Request for repair of buildings damaged by war and revolution, pg. 175
41. The Prytaneum assembles at its new country place at Vanvres, pg. 176
42. A former professor, changing his mind, recalls the College as a hotbed of revolution, pg. 180
43. The Prytaneum is divided into four, pg. 184
44. A tour of inspection by Napoleon Bonaparte, pg. 188
45. The Lycee is introduced, pg. 194
46. The Lycée is to have older virtues, pg. 201
47. A solid curriculum, pg. 205
48. Regulations for lycees 1803, pg. 207
49. Swimming lessons, pg. 218
50. The Imperial University, pg. 219
51. The new University receives what i s left of the old endowments, pg. 229
52. The Imperial Lycée—or Louis-le-Grand old and new, pg. 232
53. "Ideas on Public Education Presented to the National Assembly", pg. 237
54. Views on the Organization of Public Instruction in Schools Destined for the Young, April 1800, pg. 259
Bibliographical Note, pg. 293
References, pg. 297
Acknowledgments and References for Illustrations, pg. 300