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Collège de France - PSL
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Collège de France - PSL

📍 Paris 5e Arrondissement, Paris🏗 1530-01-01

The Collège de France traces its origins to 1530, when King François I founded it as the Collège Royal—later known at different times as the Collège impérial. In Paris, it sits close to La Sorbonne and remains a “grand établissement” dedicated to higher education and research, linked directly to the labor of discovery rather than the production of degrees. That aim is captured in its motto, Docet Omnia—“It teaches everything”—and in its stated ambition to teach “the knowledge that is being built up” across literature, science, and the arts. What makes it distinctive is the way teaching works: each professor, chosen from across disciplines, gives free, open lectures, and the Collège does not grant degrees. It also maintains research laboratories and one of the best research libraries of Europe, with sections ranging from rare books in history to chemistry and physics. …

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