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Collège de France (kôlĕzh` də fräNs), institution of higher learning founded in Paris, France, in 1529 by Francis I Francis I, 1494–1547, king of France (1515–47), known as Francis of Angoulême before he succeeded his cousin and father-in-law, King Louis XII. ..... Click the link for more information. at the instigation of Guillaume Budé Budé, Guillaume (gēyōm` büdā`), 1467–1540, French humanist, b. Paris. ..... Click the link for more information. . It was founded to encourage humanistic studies and has always been independent of any university and free from supervision. Its lectures are open to the public without matriculation or fee. It gives no examinations and grants no certificates or degrees. Now its range of studies encompasses numerous humanistic and scientific fields. Its faculty includes many distinguished scholars. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The Chicago findings could have practical importance, comments David Quere of College de France in Paris, because they have revealed "a new and very efficient way to prevent the splash. This was the foundation, or refoundation, of the "new history," which Braudel had invoked in his inaugural lecture at the College de France in 1950, which he saw reaching out beyond the Mediterranean to the rest of the globe, including the Far East, and which he followed up in later works written from "the perspective of the world. Steven Chu of Stanford University, William Phillips of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji of the College de France and Ecole Normale Superieure in France shared the physics prize for developing a way to trap atoms. |
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