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has fince been re-eftablilhed on a more extenfive plan. 
It confifts of four colleges, viz. of Theology, Law, Medi¬ 
cine, and the Sciences. Thefe colleges are fituated in 
different parts of the city, but their principal fittings are 
held, mod: of their examinations palled, and their degrees 
conferred, here. The royal univerfity is charged alfo 
with the fuperintendence of the bufinefs of education in 
every department of France ; nor can any fchool or place 
of inftrudtion be eftablilhed without its authority. The 
Colleges of the Univerfity are lituated in the following 
places: 
Faculte de Theologie, Faculty or College of Theology; 
Rue St. Jacques.—Six profeffors are eftablilhed here, who 
give lectures on logic ; on ethics ; on ecclefiaftical hiftory 
and church-difeipline; on Hebrew; on the ftudy of the 
fcriptures; and, on pulpit-eloquence. 
Facultlde Droit, College of Law; Place St. Genevieve. 
—The Doric portal of this beautiful building has a ma- 
jeftic appearance. The interior is commodioully diftribu- 
ted into numerous fpacious halls, where feven profeffors 
ffatedly ledlure: one on the Roman law; four on civil 
law ; one on the Practice of the Courts ; and one on the 
Laws of Commerce. Every Undent muff regularly attend 
during two years to obtain the degree of bachelor; three 
years for that of licentiate; and four for that of dodlor. 
Ecole de Chirurgie, School of Medicine and Surgery ; 
Faubourg St. Germain.—This noble edifice ccnfifts of four 
buildings, enclofing a fpacious court. The facade to¬ 
wards the ftreet prefents a periftyle of four ranks of colof- 
fial Ionic pillars, fupporting an attic, which contains the 
library and the cabinet of anatomy. Above the periffyle 
is a bas-relief, thirty-one feet in length, in which the 
Government is reprefented, accompanied by Minerva and 
Generofity, offering the Plan of the Surgical School to 
Hygeia, the goddefs of Health, attended by Vigilance 
and Prudence. Five medallions difplay the portraits of 
the famous Petit, Marechal, Pitard, Lapeyronie, and 
Pare. The paintings which decorate the interior, are 
from the pencil of Gibelin ; and the amphitheatre is ca¬ 
pable of containing 1200 perfons. The theatre is at-the 
bottom of the court. In the two wings are fpacious halls 
for demonftrations, and for the meetings of the members 
of the college. The ornaments of fome of thefe are cha- 
radleriftic, and well executed. 
This is the firft medical fchool in France, and probably 
in Europe. It has one peculiar advantage, that not only 
the morbid and healthy anatomy of the frame are demon- 
ftrated by diffedtions, not only the rnoft excellent leisures 
are delivered on the various difeafesto which the body is 
fubjedf ; but an hofpital is attached to the inftitution, 
into which thofe who labour under rare or peculiarly inte- 
refting dileafes are gratuitoufly received. Chaufiierand 
Dumeril lecture on anatomy and phyfiology; Deyeux 
and Vauquelin, on medical chemiftry and pharmacy; 
Halle and Defgenettes, on the philofophy of medicine ; 
Percy and Richerand, on external pathology; Pinel and 
Bourdier, on internal pathology; Juffieu and Richard, 
on medical natural hiffory and botany; Pelletan, Boyer, 
Corvii'art, and Leroux, give clinical ledfures; Leroi and 
Deformaux ledftire on midwifery; Sue, on forenfic medi¬ 
cine; and Thillaye, on the materia medica, and the ufe 
of inftruments. 
A branch of this inftitution, but confined more to the 
pradlioe of phyfic than furgery, is in Rue de la Bucherie. 
Another branch, confined principally to pharmacy, is 
in Rue de PArbalete, (Crofs-bow-Street.) I.edlures are 
delivered here, during the fpringand fumtner, on botany, 
chemiftry, and pharmacy. All apothecaries, prad'tifing 
in Paris r the departments, muft obtain a diploma front 
this fchool. The examinations are Laid to be impartial, 
yet fevere. The botanical garden is open every day ex¬ 
cept Sunday, and is worth vifiting. 
We are told in the newfpaper?, that the king, by an 
ordonnanee ifl'ued on the 20th of December, 1820, has 
infti.tuted a “ Royal Academy of Medicine,” which is to 
be divided into three branches, phyfic, furgery, and 
pharmacy. We fuppofe it to be only an exfenfion, or 
re-chriftening, of the aboye college, or faculty, of the 
Royal Univerfity. It is added, that a certain number of 
foreigners are to be admitted as affbeiates in thefe three 
branches. 
Faculte des Lcttres et Sciences, College of Letters and 
Sciences; Rue St. Jacques.—The firft divifion of this 
college boafts of fome of the moft illuftrious names in 
the republic of letters. Boifi’onnade now ledfures on 
Greek literature ; Gueroult and Delaplace, on Latin elo¬ 
quence; Lemaire, on Latin poetry; DeGuerleand Laye, 
on French eloquence and poetry ; Laramiguiere, on phi¬ 
lofophy ; Roger-Collard and Millon, on the hiftory of phi¬ 
lofophy ; Lacretelle and Guizot, on ancient and modern 
hiftory ; and Barbier du Bocage, on geography. 
College Royal de France, the Royal College; 
Place Cambray.—Francis I. eftablilhed this feminary in 
1531. Many Undents are gratuitoufly educated here; 
and public and gratuitous ledfures are daily delivered. 
This inftitution can boalt of the erudite Ramus, the inde¬ 
fatigable Daubenton, the chemift Fourcroy, and formerly 
of the poet Delille, among its profeffors. Delambre now 
ledfures on aftronomy ; Mauduit, on geometry ; Biot, on 
phylics; Portal, on anatomy; Thenard, on chemiftry; 
and Cuvier, on natural hiftory. 
Ecole Militaire , the Military School.—This building 
occupies a vaft fpace near the Invalids, in the plain of 
Grenelle. Its principal entrance towards the city is on 
the fquare of Fontenoy. The grand fagade is opposite to 
the Champ de Mars and the bridge of Jena. It was 
eredfed in 1751 by Louis XV. under the fuperintendance 
of the architedf Gabriel. Two courts, the firft of which 
is 420 feet fquare, and the fecond 270 feet, and furroun- 
ded by an arcade, fupported by cluttered Doric columns, 
condudt to the principal front towards the fquare of Fon¬ 
tenoy. In the centre a projecting building of the Corin¬ 
thian order prefents itfelf, with eight columns fuftaining 
an entablature. Two pediments, painted in frefco by M. 
Gibelin, in imitation of bas-relief, have confiderable ef- 
fedt. That on the right reprefents two athlette, one of 
whom is (topping a furious horfe ; the other contains an 
allegorical figure of Application, furrounded by the at¬ 
tributes of the arts andfciences. The fagade towards the 
Champ de Mars has likewife a projecting building in the 
centre, compofed of Corinthian columns, furmounted by 
an entablature dgcorated with bas-reliefs, and accom¬ 
panied by pedeltnis fupporting trophies of arms and fta- 
tues. The dome has a large and curious fun-dial. The 
figures of Time and Aftronomy at the bafe have been much 
admired. In the council-chamber are four paintings, re- 
prefenting the battles of Fontenoy and Lafelt,and the lieges 
of Tournay and Fribourg. Three paintings hang over 
the portal, reprefenting the fieges of Menin, Ypres, and 
Furnes. The other parts of the edifice and the gardens 
are in a very Ample and pleafing ityle. 
This inftitution was appropriated to the inftrudfion of 
young men of good family, but who were either pof- 
feffed of fmall fortune, or whole fathers had fallen in the 
fervice of their country. It long ferved as a barrack for 
the imperial guard ; but it has been reftored to its original 
and benevolent deltination by Louis XVIII. 
In the area of the Champ de Mars, in front of this 
building, twenty thoufand foldiers can be exercifed at 
once ; and all the inhabitants of Paris might be fpedfators 
from the riling banks which form a kind of amphitheatre. 
A double row of trees, which extends from the Military 
School to the river Seine, lines its outfide and infide. 
Here Louis XVI. took the oath to preferve the conftitu- 
tion, in the prefence of fix hundred thoufand perfons, on 
the 14th of July 1790; and here alfo was exhibited the 
celebrated Champ de Mai, during Napoleon’s fecond ufur- 
pation, in 1815. 
Ecole Pohjlecliniqiie, the Polytechnic School; Rue de 
la Montague.—This fchool, which holds the moft diftin- 
guilhed 
