University of France

The University of France (; originally the ''Imperial University of France'') was a highly centralized educational state organization founded by Napoleon I in 1808 and given authority not only over the individual (previously independent) universities but also over primary and secondary education. The former individual universities were henceforth to be known as "academies" (such as the ''Académie de Paris''), but each still retained a rector and local board of its own. The University of France was disbanded in 1896. Provided by Wikipedia