Collège des Grassins
The Collège des Grassins is a college of the old University of Paris .
The Collège des Grassins was founded in 1569 by Pierre Grassin, lord of Ablon , a councilor of parliament , the royal court in Paris, by his will. It is located in today's rue Laplace (formerly rue des Amandiers) and originally consisted of a bourse for the board of directors and six other large grants for students of theology who had already been examined and six small grants for humanists and artists , including the philosophers . Each of the great fellows, at the request of the first benefactor, had to oversee the studies of two lower-tier students. The Archbishop of Sens had to appoint these fellows, and he had to choose them from among the poor students in his diocese. It was envisaged that the principal of the college would be a doctoral degree or at least a baccalaureus in the theological faculty of Paris.
The writer Nicolas Chamfort was trained as an abbé here . In 1639 the leader Jean Coqueret sent his students to exercises with Saint Vincent . The famous French priest Nicholas Letourneux worked here as a chaplain . Irish priest Michael Moore taught philosophy and rhetoric in the 1660s. The French historian Charles Le Beau held the chair for rhetoric at the beginning of the 18th century.
