Collège de Bourgogne

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Collège de Bourgogne: foundation and statutes . Manuscript, 17th century (Sorbonne Library, NuBIS)

The Collège de Bourgogne was originally a home for poor students founded in Paris in the Middle Ages and later a school. It was opened in 1330 or 1331, affiliated to the Collège Louis-le-Grand in 1763 and existed until 1769.

history

The Collège was founded by will of the widowed Queen Joan of Burgundy in 1330 to take in 20 needy students of logic and philosophy from Burgundy . At the request of the Queen, the college received the proceeds from the sale of the Tour de Nesle, which she has owned since 1319 .

It was built on the Rive Gauche in the Latin Quarter in what was then rue des Cordeliers (today: rue de l'École de Médecine), opposite the Franciscan monastery Couvent des Cordeliers , from which the street name was derived, and already bordered on the east Collège des Premontrés founded in 1252 and directed by Augustinian canons.

The teaching staff of the Collège de Bourgogne in the 16th century included François Guyet (1575–1655) and Claude Rouillet ; well-known students were the later magistrate and diplomat Henri de Mesmes (1532–1596), the later poet Guillaume Des Autels (1529–1581) and Maximilien Béthune de Sully (1560–1641). The latter escaped the slaughter that followed Bartholomew's Night in 1572 by taking refuge in the Collège de Bourgogne.

In 1763 Louis XV bought . the building des Collèges and several neighboring houses to build an amphitheater for the “Académie royale de chirurgie”, a predecessor of today's medical school.