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.
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ISBN
9781400870639
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok