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    The Collège des Quatre-Nations ("College of the Four Nations"), also known as the Collège Mazarin after its founder, was one of the colleges of the historic...
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    Versailles and the Collège des Quatre-Nations Le Vau's garden front at the Château de Versailles, c. 1675 Collège des Quatre-Nations in 2014 Louis Le Vau...
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    Saint-Antoine, later Lycée Charlemagne), and the Collège des Quatre-Nations (école centrale des Quatre-Nations). The latter building, however, was repurposed...
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    France, or the Palace of the Institute of France (previously the Collège des Quatre-Nations of the University of Paris), at 23 quai de Conti in the 6th arrondissement...
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    the Collège Louis le Grand in Paris. He took orders and for some time was a mere usher, eventually becoming professor of rhetoric at the Collège des Quatre-Nations...
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    the académies. The building was originally constructed as the Collège des Quatre-Nations by Cardinal Mazarin, as a school for students from new provinces...
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    Lavoisier began his schooling at the Collège des Quatre-Nations, University of Paris (also known as the Collège Mazarin) in Paris in 1754 at the age of...
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    College of Burgundy, which she founded for the University of Paris. Demolished in 1665, mansion and tower became the place of the Collège des Quatre-Nations...
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  • of actors. In Paris, the Bibliothèque Mazarine reopens at the Collège des Quatre-Nations. In Japan, Ihara Saikaku's The Life of an Amorous Man (好色一代男,...
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  • and cacodyl oxide. Cadet studied at the Collège des Quatre-Nations and became a pharmacist at the Hotel Royal des Invalides in Paris. He was the brother...
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    was born in Paris to a merchant father and was educated at the Collège des Quatre-Nations. He attended salons, where he met Napoleon's brother, Louis Bonaparte...
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    finished in 1715. A third Baroque dome was soon added for the Collège des Quatre-Nations (now the Institut de France). In 1661, following the death of...
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    the beginning of two more important domes. The Chapel of the Collège des Quatre-Nations, (now the Institut de France by Louis Le Vau and François d'Orbay...
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    founded during the early modern period, like the Collège des Quatre-Nations. With time, the college came to be the main French institution for theological...
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    Doodle commemorated his 306th birthday. — (1776). Institution des sourds et muets, par la voie des signes méthodiques [Deaf mute Institution, by Means of Systematic...
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    the Collège des Quatre-Nations which he had founded in 1661. The original bookcases of his library were transferred to the reading room of the College of...
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    Boulevards. Other marks of his reign were the Collège des Quatre-Nations, the Place Vendôme, the Place des Victoires, and Les Invalides. Paris grew in population...
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    continued. Mazarin left funds in his will to build the Collège des Quatre-Nations (College of the Four Nations) (1662–1672), an ensemble of four baroque palaces...
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  • Saint-Louis-en-l'Île church (on the Île Saint-Louis) (1664) – plans Collège des Quatre-Nations (now the Institut de France) – for Mazarin Claude Perrault (1613–1688)...
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    François Mansart and Jacques Lemercier (1645–1667), and the Collège des Quatre-Nations (1662–1670). His original plan called for a single great space...
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  • comedies in collaboration, he became assistant librarian at the Collège des Quatre-Nations. He then joined Le Moniteur universel where he wrote reports of...
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    first such complex of buildings built under Louis XIV was the Collège des Quatre-Nations (now the Institut de France) (1662–1668), facing the Louvre. It...
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    d'Alembert entered the Jansenist Collège des Quatre-Nations (the institution was also known under the name "Collège Mazarin"). Here he studied philosophy...
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  • 18th-century French playwright and librettist. After studying at collège des Quatre-Nations, Pesselier applied for three years to the study of law. He then...
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    Jacques-Louis David (category Members of the Académie des beaux-arts)
    They saw to it that he received an excellent education at the Collège des Quatre-Nations, University of Paris, but he was never a good student—he had a...
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    the Louvre; since 1805, the Académie Française has met in the Collège des Quatre-Nations (known now as the Palais de l'Institut). The remaining academies...
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    own making. The son of a valet de chambre, he studied at the Collège des Quatre-Nations in Paris, then went to the court of Charles III of Spain; after...
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    his library, which he had opened to scholars since 1643, to the Collège des Quatre-Nations which he had founded in 1661. The Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève...
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    the Seine from the Louvre, Louis XIV built the Collège des Quatre-Nations (College of the Four Nations) (1662–1672), an ensemble of four baroque palaces...
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    the Institut from the Louvre to its current seat at the former Collège des Quatre-Nations, which had been closed in 1791. The Salon restarted on a yearly...
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