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Collège de France

{{short description|Higher education and research establishment in Paris, France}}

{{about|the tertiary education college in Paris|other uses|Collège de France (disambiguation)}}

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| name = {{Lang|fr|Collège de France|italic=no}}

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| caption = Coat of arms of the {{Lang|fr|Collège de France|italic=no}}, given by Louis XIV with letters patent in 1699

| latin_name = Collegium Franciæ Regium{{Cite web |title=Search |url=https://archive.org/search?query=%22Collegium+Franci%C3%A6+Regium%22&sin=TXT |website=Internet Archive}}

| motto = Docet omnia (Latin)

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| mottoeng = Teaches all

| established = {{start date and age|1530}} (royal charter)

| founder = Francis I of France

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| type = Public

| affiliation = PSL University, Consortium Couperin{{citation |url=http://www.couperin.org/presentation/membres |title=Les membres de Couperin |language=fr |work=Couperin.org |access-date=12 July 2018 |archive-date=17 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221117072244/https://www.couperin.org/presentation/membres |url-status=dead }}

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| head = Thomas Römer

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| former_names = {{Lang|fr|Collège royal|italic=no}}, Collège national, Collège impérial

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The {{Lang|fr|Collège de France|italic=no}} ({{IPA|fr|kɔlɛʒ də fʁɑ̃s}}), formerly known as the {{Lang|fr|Collège Royal}} or as the Collège impérial founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment ({{Lang|fr|grand établissement}}) in France. It is located in Paris near La Sorbonne. The {{Lang|fr|Collège de France|italic=no}} has been considered to be France's most prestigious research establishment.{{cite book|title=Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory: Text and Readings|first1=Scott |last1=Appelrouth |first2=Laura Desfor |last2=Edles |url=https://archive.org/details/classicalcontemp0000appe|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/classicalcontemp0000appe/page/641 641]|publisher=Pine Forge Press|year= 2008|oclc=1148204416|isbn=9780761927938}}{{cite book|title=Paralyses: Literature, Travel, and Ethnography in French Modernity|author=John Culbert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OI_7IvJ1O30C&pg=PA257|page=257|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|year=2011|isbn=978-0803234192}} It is an associate member of PSL University.{{Cite web |title=Decree 2019-1130 creating Université Paris sciences et lettres (Université PSL) |url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jo_pdf.do?id=JORFTEXT000039323049 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200723064807/https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jo_pdf.do?id=JORFTEXT000039323049 |archive-date=2020-07-23 |access-date=2020-07-23}}

Research and teaching are closely linked at the {{Lang|fr|Collège de France|italic=no}}, whose ambition is to teach "the knowledge that is being built up in all fields of literature, science and the arts".

Overview

As of 2021, 21 Nobel Prize winners and 9 Fields Medalists have been affiliated with the Collège. It does not grant degrees. Each professor is required to give lectures where attendance is free and open to anyone. Professors, about 50 in number, are chosen by the professors themselves, from a variety of disciplines, in both science and the humanities. The motto of the Collège is Docet Omnia, Latin for "It teaches everything"; its goal is to "teach science in the making" and can be best summed up by Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phrase: "Not acquired truths, but the idea of freely-executed research""Non pas des vérités acquises, mais l'idée d'une recherche libre". The entire sentence is in fact: "Ce que le Collège de France, depuis sa fondation, est chargé de donner à ses auditeurs, ce ne sont pas des vérités acquises, c'est l'idée d'une recherche libre." From Merleau-Ponty's inaugural lecture at the Collège de France, reproduced in: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Éloge de la philosophie et autres essais, Paris: Gallimard, 1989, p. 13. which is inscribed in golden letters above the main hall. File:Cour_intérieure_Collège_de_France,_Paris_5e.jpg

The Collège has research laboratories and one of the best{{Peacock term|date=December 2024}} research libraries of Europe, with sections focusing on history with rare books, humanities, social sciences and also chemistry and physics.

As of June 2009, over 650 audio podcasts of {{Lang|fr|Collège de France|italic=no}} lectures are available on iTunes. Some are also available in English and Chinese. Similarly, the {{Lang|fr|Collège de France|italic=no}}'s website hosts several videos of classes.

The classes are followed by various students, from senior researchers to PhD or master's students, or even undergraduates. Moreover, the "leçons inaugurales" (first lessons) are important events in Paris intellectual and social life and attract a very large public of curious Parisians.

History

The Collège was established by King Francis I of France, modeled after the Collegium Trilingue in Louvain, at the urging of Guillaume Budé. Of humanist inspiration, the school was established as an alternative to the Sorbonne to promote such disciplines as Hebrew, Ancient Greek (the first teacher being the celebrated scholar Janus Lascaris) and Mathematics.Byzance et l'Europe : Colloque à la Maison de l'Europe, Paris, 22 avril 1994, H. Antoniadis-Bibicou (Ed.), 2001, ISBN/ISSN/EAN: 291142720. Initially called {{Lang|fr|Collège royal}}, and later Collège des trois langues (Latin, ancient Greek and Hebrew), Collège national, and Collège impérial, it was named {{Lang|fr|Collège de France|italic=no}} in 1870. In 2010, it became a founding associate of PSL Research University (a community of Parisian universities).

Administrators

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  • 1853–1854: {{ill|Jacques Rinn|fr}}

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Faculty

The faculty of the {{Lang|fr|Collège de France|italic=no}} currently comprises fifty-two Professors, elected by the Professors themselves from among Francophone scholarsFrancophone only in the sense that they have to be able to teach in French; they are not required to be native speakers of French or to come from or to have studied in a Francophone country: see for example Sanjay Subrahmanyam who is Indian: [https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/sanjay-subrahmanyam/Biographie.htm Sanjay Subrahmanyam's biography on the site of the Collège de France] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201040326/http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/sanjay-subrahmanyam/Biographie.htm |date=2017-12-01 }} in subjects including mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, history, archaeology, linguistics, oriental studies, philosophy, the social sciences and other fields. Two chairs are reserved for foreign scholars who are invited to give lectures.

Notable faculty

Notable faculty members include Serge Haroche, awarded with Nobel Prize in Physics in 2012. Notably, eight Fields medal winners have been affiliated with the College.

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See also

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External links

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  • [http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/en-college/index.htm Collège de France website], English home page

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