Louis-the-Large college

The Louis-the-Large college is located at the 123 of the street Saint-Jacob, in the V {{E}} district of Paris, in the middle of the Latin Quarter (here a satellite sight of the college). It is installed in the buildings of old the Collège of Clermont, founded by Jésuite S at the 16th century.

It is surrounded by different prestigious buildings like the Collège de France, the Sorbonne or the the Pantheon of Paris. Just like its neighbor the College Henri-Iv, it is a famous college for the quality of sound Enseignement and the success of his pupils, so much on the level of the Secondary education (rate of success with the baccalaureat of more than 99 %) that on the level of its scientific, literary or commercial preparatory classes where one observes a strong percentage of integration in Universities such as the Polytechnic school, the National university or HEC Paris.

The pupils of the Louis-the-Large college are the “magnoludovicians” (term however little employed); the establishment is usually indicated by initials “LLG”.

History

The college of the Jesuits

In 1560, Guillaume of Prat, bishop of Clermont, bequeaths to the Jesuits a sum of 6000 books intended for the acquisition of a final dwelling and a revenue in order to ensure the subsistence of six “ poor escholiers ”. The Jesuits thus bought in 1563 the “Court of Langres”, important hotel located street Saint-Jacob. This old hotel will be the initial cell of the College of the Society of Jesus. Tolerated by the University, but without official authorization, the establishment opens its doors on October 1st 1563. Immediately, success exceeds all the hopes because the pupils present of big number. The college should be increased, by buying and annexing the joint houses of the street Saint-Jacob. And yet, the Collegium Societatis Jesu , that the pupils indicate under the name of Collège of Clermont, meets as of its creation of the obstacles. Indeed, by an originality surprising at the time, the new college decided to give to its external free teaching. The result is immédiat : one shows the Jesuits to depopulate the colleges of the Université of Paris. As of 1564, the Vice-chancellor Jean Prévot defends with the fathers to reopen the college; a lawsuit begins of which all the kingdom is occupied. While waiting for a tentative conclusion which does not come, the Jesuits receive the provisional authorization to teach: provisional which will last thirty years and which will allow the College Clermont to radiate with a glare increasingly sharper.

In 1594, however, the king Henri IV is struck of a stab by Jean Châtel and one discovers quickly that the author of this gesture was formerly raises college of Clermont. In spite of the sharp protests of Jean Châtel itself, one hastens to return the Jesuits responsible for his crime. They are exiled, their college put under sequestration, the sold goods and pieces of furniture.

Last nine years later, the king grants to the Jesuits the regular and final authorization of living in France. In 1606, they can take again possession of their college of the street Saint-Jacob, but with the proviso not of not teaching there. Then they receive the authorization to give a course of theology per week. Lastly, of the letters patent of the August 20th 1610 grant to the College Clermont the right to give all kinds of teaching.

A vigorous action is taken by the Université of Paris near the Parlement of Paris which, in a stop of the December 22nd 1611, prohibited with the Jesuits to teach with Paris : it will be necessary to await the February 15th 1618 so that is finally authorized, in accordance with the letters patent of 1610, the reopening of the college.

Consequently, profiting from the semi-official protection of the king, the College of Clermont is forwarded, of 1618 with 1682, to its apogee. In 1682, the College arrives at the supreme dedication. The Sun king grants his patronage officiel to him;: the establishment receives the name of Collegium Ludovici Magni , Collège of Louis Large the . Consequently, the establishment, although it was never yet approved by the Université of Paris, gives a prestigious teaching to more than 3000 pupils.

The chief town of the university

The year 1762 sees the victory of the Parlement of Paris and the University over Louis the Large one. Following the bankruptcy of the father Lavalette, the Society of Jesus whom one made responsible for the debts of the father, makes the badge imprudence indeed to carry the business in front of the large room of the Parlement of Paris. The May 3rd 1762, the College of Louis the Large one thus receives the official opinion to have with congédier without delay Masters and pupils. The Jesuits are expelled and their enemies settle triumphantly in the walls of the old college. The November 21st 1763, Louis the Large one is devoted chief town of the Université of Paris .

28 colleges of Paris are gathered in Louis the Large one: College of Arras, College of Autun, College of Bayeux, College of Beauvais (or Dormans), College of Boissy, College of the Good-Children, College of Burgundy, College of Cambric, College of Cholets, College of Cornouailles, College of Dainville, College of the Eighteen (or Notre-Dame), College of Fortet, College of Hubant (or the Ave Maria), College of Justice, College of Laon, College of Mans, College of Master Gervais, Nice College (or Grandmont), College of Narbonne, College of Presles, College of Rheims, Collège Holy-Bores, Collège Saint-Michel, Collège of Seez, Collège of Turns, Collège of Tréguier, Collège of the treasurer.

The king Louis XV becomes the second founder of the collège : the establishment obtains to put on its seal the royal weapons, of azure to the three flowers of gold lily. On the large door from now on the effigies of Louis XIV and Louis XV are carved.

Although it divides with the Recteur the vast buildings of the street Saint-Jacob, the new main thing decides to undertake a true teaching revolution which will start again the war with the Université of Paris. In 1766, it institutes the contest of the aggregation, which is tested from October at December with Louis the Large one. Going still further, it organizes in the buildings of the royal college a Teacher training school , preparing with the aggregation (and thus before settling street of Ulm, the National university functioned during more than eighty years with Louis the Large one).

A Bibliothèque is made up as from 1770 in the buildings from that of the vice-chancellor Jean-Gabriel Petit of Montempuis, of the books which were already on the spot in the college and of the libraries of the attached colleges: the unit forms the embryo of future the Bibliothèque of the Sorbonne.

Ulcerated by this new attack against its secular franknesses, the Université of Paris breaks out in a twelve year old war, before returning the weapons in 1778. During this time, the college victoriously crosses all the campaigns carried out against him owe the opinion; the number of stock-brokers passes from 465 in 1781, to 494 in 1788, then 550 in 1789. At that time, the pupils remain with the college for all the duration of their studies: after the baccalaureat, they have the possibility of choosing between the preparation of the aggregation, the studies of medicine, the studies of right and those of theology.

Thus the young person Robespierre, entered in the capacity as stock-broker at the eleven years age, left the college at twenty-three years provided with his diploma for the occupation of lawyer and rewarded for his brilliant studies by an exceptional price for 600 books.

The college starting from 1790

In 1790, patriotic enthusiasm ignites the stock-brokers. Hundred fifty of them run at the borders of the “ fatherland in danger ”. Of 1792 with 1794, part of the buildings of the college lately baptized Collège Equality is occupied by three thousand soldiers, then by a political prison where the victims of the Terreur await the departure for the scaffold. The books are temporarily transferred to the “deposit Louis-the-Culture” (Église Saint-Paul Saint-Louis) but gradually return as of 1796.

At the beginning of the Revolution, all the colleges of Paris had been closed, with the only exception of the College Equality. In 1797, it becomes central Institut of the stock-brokers and all that remains of the forty Parisian colleges of the Ancien Mode there is gathered.

In 1801, taking in its turn the way followed by Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI, the First Consul, Napoleon Bonaparte, returns visit to the establishment which one more usually called since 1800, the Collège of Paris . In 1802, on a proposal from the Minister of Interior Department Chaptal, the establishment receives the title of “ college of Paris ”. First establishment in France to receive this title of college, it becomes in 1805, the “ College impérial ”.

From now on, names will change at the rate/rhythm of the jolts of the history of France : college Louis Large the with the First Restoration, the establishment becomes again royal college of Louis Large the with the Second Restoration. The preposition which seemed to make college the exclusive property of the Sun king disappears in 1831.

As for the Library, it is moved with the Sorbonne as from 1823.

The days of 1848 make disappear in its turn the royal adjective then to reappear the title of college . One brief moment, pupils and Masters ask the young person and transitory République to baptize their establishment national college . They are not écoutés ; one prefers with this name the name of college Descartes .

As of 1849, however, a ministerial decree restores old the titer : Louis college Large the . The Second Empire will bring its personal small key and will make establishment the imperial college Louis Large the . Renamed by the municipal authority, of 1870 with 1873, college Descartes , the establishment of the street Saint-Jacob becomes again finally, and definitively, Louis college Large the in March 1873. One can note besides that the two nomenclatures Louis Large the and Louis-the-Large are valid.

The college today

The current location

Since the beginning of the 20th century, Louis the Large one knew important work. 1995 mark the beginning of a vast company of restoration which gives to the college its current aspect.

The college, currently directed by Joel Vallat (former headmaster of the French College of New York), accommodates every year nearly 1800 pupils (approximately 850 pupils in secondary and 950 pupils in preparatory classes). The scientific preparatory classes gather 60 % of the pupils, while the literary preparatory classes represent only 25 % of the pupils and the commercial preparatory classes 15 % of the pupils. Almost 10 % of the pupils are of foreign nationality (one counts 40 different nationalities on the whole, in particular in the European sections of the secondary known as ). The college is also equipped with a vast boarding school of a capacity of reception of 339 pupils, boys and girls, registered in preparatory classes.

Classes

The Louis-the-Large college counts forty classes, mainly scientific; there are 800 pupils in 26 classes for the second cycle and a little less than one score of preparatory classes at the universities.

In second, there are eight classes of levels similar proposing the lesson of determinations such as the Economic scenes and social (ITS), the Latin , the physical Mesures and data processing MPI and the Initiation with the engineerings ISI new option. In final first and , it there each time eight scientific classes including one from here 2008/2009 with profile Engineerings (IF) and a literary class. On these two levels, there are distinctions between the classes: S1 is regarded as the class elite whereas the 6, which goes from the second to the final one, is a European Section (programs of history and geography specific and treated in English). There exists also an Eastern section with one hour of Mathematics in Chinese

On the level of the preparatory classes at the universities, there are four MPSI and two PCSI in the scientific discipline, four HK for the arts person and two ECS (first and second year) as regards the field of the commercial dies.

The Community home and cultural

Entirely managed by the pupils of the college, the community home and cultural is a pleasant association made up of various clubs for all the tastes. To reach the official site of the clubs

Some figures

The baccalaureat

Comment: These results, out of proportion with the national average of the results to the baccalaureat, are explained in particular by the selection which takes place at the entry with the college. Contrary in the majority of the colleges, this establishment indeed recruits on file the pupils having the best school results of the colleges of Île-de-France, just like its neighbor, the Lycée Henri-Iv. However, the college recruits 60% of its pupils of the secondary in his district.

The open competition

As of the creation of the open Competition in 1744, Louis-the-Large obtains excellent results there. Thus, Baudelaire was distinguished particularly in the composition from into Latin .

Universities

Concerning the contests of the Universities, the results of the preparatory classes of Louis-The-Large are excellent year by year. Thus with the contests 2006, the college obtains in particular:

2nd and 4th with the National university of the street of Ulm A/L (Traditional Letters) and in addition it should be noted that ten “khâgneux” is allowed in the Parisian business schools;

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 8th, 9th… in MP (IF), 1st in MP (Information) and 1st, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 11th… out of PC with ENS Ulm (Mathématiques or Physique) and 1st, 1st (a) and 2nd with the ENS Cachan;

of the majors for the 3 dies - MP, PC and PSI - Polytechnic school as well as 2nd, 4th and 5th in MP, 2nd and 4th out of PC and 3rd in PSI;

3 majors of each die of the group of the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the mines and 7 pupils in the 15 first in MP, 24 in the 100 first out of PC and 14 in the 50 first in PSI;

For year 2006/2007, the college arrived 1st for the contest of the National university of the street of Ulm A/L (Traditional Letters) by integrating 30 pupils out of 75 places.

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Other famous characters

Andre Cardinal Michelin
of Retz
Holy François Dirty
François Ass
Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

the official site of the Louis-the-Large college.
the site of the clubs of the College.
the site of the association of the former students - AAELLG.

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