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The founding of the Collège de France — Francis I’s appointment, in 1530, of the first royal lecturers
On Guillaume Budé’s advice, Francis I appointed royal lecturers, paid from his own purse, to teach what the University refused — Greek, Hebrew, mathematics. A college “built only of men”, without walls for eighty years, which still teaches, freely and without enrolment, knowledge in the making. (Editorial synthesis)
The founding of the Collège de France took place in 1530 (Julian calendar). (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
The founding of the Collège de France took place in Paris. (source: Larousse)
The founding of the Collège de France ended in royal lecturers, instituted by Francis I in Paris outside the university. (source: Larousse)
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