College of the Scot
The college of the Scot (or college of Grisy) is a college of old the Université of Paris. It is located at the 65 Rue of Cardinal-Lemoine, in the Ve district of Paris.
It was set up by act of July 8th 1333 per Jean, bishop of Murray in a house of the street of the Almond trees (currently street Laplace). Later, the ambassador of Scotland, Jacques de Béthun, formed a community of priests Scot, forced by the political events to take refuge in France. In 1639, the archbishop of Paris a community of priests Scot was associated with the college of the Scot, and, in 1662, Robert Barclay, which was the main thing, bought a site on the Saint-Victor ditches and made there build a house which links the double destination of seminar and college. In one of the vaults was a gilded, containing the brain of Jacques II, king of England, died bronze ballot box with Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer in 1701.
The building was used as prison under the Terreur then was returned to the English church in 1806.
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