Victor Cousin
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Victor Cousin was a French philosopher. He was the founder of "eclecticism", a briefly influential school of French philosophy that combined elements of German idealism and Scottish Common Sense Reali
Portrait by Gustave Le Gray
Louis Adolphe Thiers 2
University of Paris
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The University of Paris was the leading university in Paris, France, from 1150 to 1970, except for 1793–1806 during the French Revolution. Emerging around 1150 as a corporation associated with the cat
Victor Cousin
…their Napoleonic institution (the baccalauréat was awarded by juries made of university professors), Cousin was "crowned" in the ancient hall of the Sorbonne for a Latin oration he wrote, which earned him a first prize at the concours général, a competition of the best pupils at lycées (established under the…
La Sorbonne
The Sorbonne covered by snow.
Meeting of doctors at the University of Paris. From a 16th-century miniature.
Rue Saint-Jacques and the Sorbonne in Paris