The (; formerly known as Collège royal or Collège impérial or Collège des trois langues), founded in 1530 by Francis I of France, is a higher education and research establishment () in France. It is located in Paris near La Sorbonne. The has been considered to be France's most prestigious research establishment. It is an associate member of PSL University.

Research and teaching are closely linked at the , whose ambition is to teach "the knowledge that is being built up in all fields of literature, science and the arts".

Overview As of 2021, 21 Nobel Prize winners and 9 Fields Medalists have been affiliated with the Collège. It does not grant degrees. Each professor is required to give lectures where attendance is free and open to anyone. Professors, about 50 in number, are chosen by the professors themselves, from a variety of disciplines, in both science and the humanities. The motto of the Collège is , Latin for "It teaches everything"; its goal is to "teach science in the making" and can be best summed up by Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phrase: "Not acquired truths, but the idea of freely-executed research""". The entire sentence is in fact: "." From Merleau-Ponty's inaugural lecture at the Collège de France, reproduced in: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, , Paris: Gallimard, 1989, p. 13. which is inscribed in golden letters above the main hall. The Collège houses research laboratories and an extensive network of specialized research libraries, with collections focusing on chemistry, physics, social sciences, humanities, and history, the latter of which includes rare books.

As of June 2009, over 650 audio podcasts of lectures are available on iTunes. Some are also available in English and Chinese. Similarly, the 's website hosts several videos of classes. The classes are followed by various students, from senior researchers to PhD or master's students, or even undergraduates. Moreover, the "" (first lessons) are important events in Paris intellectual and social life and attract a very large public of curious Parisians.

History The Collège was established by King Francis I of France, modeled after the Collegium Trilingue in Louvain, at the urging of Guillaume Budé. Of humanist inspiration, the school was established as an alternative to the Sorbonne to promote such disciplines as Hebrew, Ancient Greek (the first teacher being the celebrated scholar Janus Lascaris) and Mathematics., Paris, 22 avril 1994, H. Antoniadis-Bibicou (Ed.), 2001, ISBN/ISSN/EAN: 291142720. Initially called "", and later "" (Latin, ancient Greek and Hebrew), "", and "", it was named "" in 1870. In 2010, it became a founding associate of PSL Research University (a community of Parisian universities).

Administrators

1800–1823: Louis Lefèvre‑Gineau 1824–1838: Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy 1838–1840: Louis Thénard 1840–1848: Jean-Antoine Letronne 1848–1852: Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire 1852–1853:

1853–1854:

1854–1873: Stanislas Julien 1873–1883: Édouard René de Laboulaye 1883–1892: Ernest Renan 1892–1894: Gaston Boissier 1894–1903: Gaston Paris 1903–1911: Émile Levasseur 1911–1929: 1929–1936: Joseph Bédier 1937–1955: Edmond Faral 1955–1965: Marcel Bataillon 1966–1974: Étienne Wolff 1974–1980: 1980–1991: 1991–1997: André Miquel 1997–2000: Gilbert Dagron 2000–2006: Jacques Glowinski 2006–2012: Pierre Corvol 2012–2015: Serge Haroche 2015–2019: Alain Prochiantz Since 2019: Thomas Römer

Faculty

The faculty of the currently comprises fifty-two professors, elected by the Professors themselves from among francophone scholarsFrancophone only in the sense that they have to be able to teach in French; they are not required to be native speakers of French or to come from or to have studied in a Francophone country: see for example Sanjay Subrahmanyam who is Indian: Sanjay Subrahmanyam's biography on the site of the Collège de France in subjects including mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, history, archaeology, linguistics, oriental studies, philosophy, the social sciences and other fields. Two chairs are reserved for foreign scholars who are invited to give lectures.

Notable faculty Notable faculty members include Serge Haroche, awarded with Nobel Prize in Physics in 2012. Notably, eight Fields Medal winners have been affiliated with the College.

Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, sinologist Raymond Aron, philosopher, social theorist, journalist. Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie, classical scholar Étienne Baluze, historiographer Roland Barthes, literary theorist, philosopher, critic Simon Baudichon, physician Émile Benveniste, structural linguist, semiotician Henri Bergson, philosopher Claude Bernard, physiologist Marcelin Berthelot, chemist, politician Yves Bonnefoy, poet, art historian Pierre Boulez, musician, writer Pierre Bourdieu, sociologist Jean-François Champollion, philologist, orientalist Jean-Pierre Changeux, neuroscientist Roger Chartier, historian, historiographer Anne Cheng,"Anne Cheng Biographie ." Collège de France. Retrieved on 11 December 2013. sinologist Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, physicist Alain Connes, mathematician Yves Coppens, anthropologist Georges Cuvier, naturalist, zoologist Marie Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville, historian, philologist Jean Darcet, chemist Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, physician, physicist, inventor Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, physicist Émile Deschanel, author, politician Georges Duby, historian Georges Dumézil Lucien Febvre Oronce Fine Michel Foucault Ferdinand André Fouqué Etienne Fourmont Marc Fumaroli Albert Gabriel Jean-Baptiste Gail Charles Gide Étienne Gilson Jerzy Grotowski Martial Gueroult Ian Hacking Eugène Auguste Ernest Havet Barthélemy d'Herbelot Françoise Héritier Frédéric Joliot Alfred Jost Stanislas Julien René Labat Edouard Rene Lefebvre de Laboulaye Sylvestre François Lacroix René Laennec Paul Langevin Henri Lebesgue René Leriche Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Claude Lévi-Strauss André Lichnerowicz Alfred Loisy Edmond Malinvaud Henri Maspero Louis Massignon Marcel Mauss Maurice Merleau-Ponty Jules Michelet Adam Mickiewicz Jean-Baptiste Morin Alexis Paulin Paris Abel Pavet de Courteille Paul Pelliot François Pétis de la Croix Guillaume Postel Edgar Quinet Petrus Ramus Henri Victor Regnault Louis Robert Jean-Baptiste Say Victor Scialac Jean-Pierre Serre François Simiand Gabriel Sionita André Vaillant Paul Valéry François Vatable Jean-Pierre Vernant Claire Voisin Biography at Collège de France website Jules Vuillemin Harald Weinrich Biography at Collège de France website Jean-Christophe Yoccoz Jean Yoyotte Nécrologie de M. Jean Yoyotte (1927–2009) par Christiane Zivie-Coche Don Zagier

See also Institut de France Raymond Couvègnes

References

External links

Collège de France website, English home page