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{{Short description|College of the University of Paris}}
[[File:Collège_de_Navarre.jpg|thumb|right|300px|College of Navarre as it appeared in 1440<br />(19th-century engraving)]]

The '''College of Navarre''' ({{langx|fr|Collège de Navarre}}, {{IPA|fr|kɔlɛʒ də navaʁ|pron}}) was one of the [[college]]s of the historic [[University of Paris]]. It rivaled the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]] and was renowned for its library.

==History==
The college was founded by Queen [[Joan I of Navarre]] in 1305, who provided for three departments, the arts with 20 students, philosophy with 30 and theology with 20 students.<ref>The modern history is  by Nathalie Gorochov, ''Le Collège de Navarre de sa fondation (1305) au début du XVe siècle (1418): Histoire de l'institution, de sa vie intellectuelle et de son recrutement''.</ref>

The queen bequeathed part of her fine ''hôtel de Navarre'' in rue Saint André des Arts, together with lands generated rents of 2000 ''livres'' p.a. in her counties of  Champagne and Brie. Her trustees decided to sell the Paris property and acquire an ample plot on the [[Montagne Sainte-Geneviève]] (rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève / rue Descartes), right in the [[Latin Quarter]], and build the college anew. The first stone, laid 12 April 1309, was for the college chapel.

Provision was made also for the scholars' support, 4 Paris sous weekly for the artists, 6 for the logicians and 8 for the theologians. These allowances were to continue until the graduates held [[benefice]]s of the value respectively of 30, 40 and 60 ''livres''. The regulations allowed the theological students a fire, daily, from November to March after dinner and supper for one half-hour. The luxury of benches was forbidden by a commission appointed by [[Pope Urban V|Urban V]] in 1366. On the festival days, the theologians were expected to deliver a collation to their fellow-students of the three classes. The rector at the head of the college, originally appointed by the faculty of the university, was now appointed by the king's confessor. The students wore a special dress and the [[tonsure]] and ate in common.

Classes bore little resemblance to today's universities. Subjects were included that are not taught today, such as [[rhetoric]] in its classical meaning. The students were required to speak and write only in [[Latin]] and all subjects had to be learned by [[Rote learning|rote]]. Only after graduation were students allowed to write using their own words or discuss the subjects. At least one of the rectors, [[Claude D'Espence]] became rector before he obtained his doctorate.<ref>{{CathEncy|wstitle=Claude D'Espence}}</ref>

The College was dissolved at the time of the [[French Revolution]], its library dispersed and its archives lost. Its buildings were assigned to the [[École polytechnique]] by [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]] in 1805.

==Notable students or teachers==
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*[[Pierre d'Ailly]]
*[[François d'Amboise]]
*[[Jacques d'Amboise (doctor)|Jacques d'Amboise]]
*[[Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet]]
*[[Jean Buridan]]
*[[Marquis de Condorcet|Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet]]
*[[André Chénier]]
*[[Thomas Dempster]]
*[[Oronce Finé]]
*[[William Fowler (makar)|William Fowler]]
*[[Jean Gerson|Jean de Gerson]]
*[[Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance]]
*[[Nicole Oresme]]
*[[Jean-Antoine Nollet]], appointed by the king to a professorship of experimental physics (the first in France) at the college in 1753.
*[[Cardinal Richelieu|Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu]]
*[[Pierre de Ronsard]]
*[[Octavien de Saint-Gelais]]
*[[George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny]]
*[[François Villon]]
*[[Francis Xavier|Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta, St Francis Xavier]]
*[[Pierre de Fermat]]
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==References==
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* ''This content originally came from [https://web.archive.org/web/20041206125114/http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/hcc6.ii.iv.v.html History of the Christian Church]''
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*[http://www.lebrelblanco.com/anexos/a0267.htm  Historia Medieval del Reyno de Navarra]

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