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Previous | Home | Next"Originally founded by a decree of 9 Brumaire an III (30 October 1794), the first normal school, to receive 'all Republic citizens already educated in the sciences useful to learn under the most skilled teachers in all types of art of teaching'; then accepted a quarter of the curriculum for the Jardin des plantes. Napoleon (the 1st) had the idea of reoganizing the University and brought in 1810 military students. The most striking figure of this first promotion, Victor Cousin, who became Minister of Public Instruction, asked the architect A. Gisors plans for a building a 'monastic sobriety from old vines of the Ursulines.'" . . . .
