A general view of the present system of public education in France : and of the laws, regulations, and courses of study in the different faculties, colleges, and inferior schools, which now compose the Royal University of that kingdom : preceded by a short history of the University of Paris before the Revolution / by David Johnston.

Johnston, David, 1801-1879

Date:: 1827

Credit: A general view of the present system of public education in France : and of the laws, regulations, and courses of study in the different faculties, colleges, and inferior schools, which now compose the Royal University of that kingdom : preceded by a short history of the University of Paris before the Revolution / by David Johnston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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same power, regulated by the same laws, and subject to the same supreme jurisdiction. The plan adopted in the following pages gives a short detail of the early rise and after progress of the University of Paris before its suppression ; then a sketch of the temporary systems that succeeded it; and, finally, an ac- count of the Royal University of France ; and it has been the object to make this as concise as is consistent with perspicuity and distinct- ness. Perhaps not the least interesting part of the whole may be that which treats of the courses of study required for obtaining the higher degrees of academic honours in the learn- ed professions, and the preparatory courses of libera] elementary education, which are impe- rative upon young men before they can be per- mitted to enter upon the prosecution of these professions. The University of France presents a system of instruction very complete in all its parts. The progression followed in the distribution of the various branches of literature; the excellent

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