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.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1975 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
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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