The School of the French Revolution : : A Documentary History of the College of Louis-le-Grand and its Director, Jean-François Champagne, 1762-1814 / / ed. by R. R. Palmer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• HerausgeberIn: Palmer, R. R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1975
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1384
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

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