The College of Louis-le-Grand, now the premier lycee of France, is the only school with a connected history of education from the ancien regime to modern times. It was the only school never to close during the French Revolution, and its experience offers a new perspective on the fate of educational institutions in times of revolutionary change. In

*Frontmatter, pg. i*Acknowledgments, pg. v*Contents and Chronology, pg. vii*Illustrations, pg. 1*Introduction, pg. 9*1. A new college for scholarship students is established, pg. 43*2. Social origins of the students, pg. 45*3. An abortive suggestion for a modern university, pg. 47*4. A program of teacher training is launched, pg. 49*5. Regulations of the college, pg. 52*6. Rules on admission of new scholarship students, pg. 71*7. A special prize is awarded to Maximilien de Robespierre, pg. 71*8. Regulations for the chief cook, pg. 72*9. Regulations for law students, pg. 75*10. A minor philosophe shows his scorn for the colleges, pg. 77*11. Distribution of scholarship students by level of studies, pg. 80*12. A former professor at Louisle- Grand defends the University of Paris, pg. 81*13. The University salutes the Revolution, pg. 86*14. A student petition requests reform, pg. 87*15. A deputation of students appears before the National Assembly, pg. 91*16. Signsofstudentradicalism, pg. 92*17. A professor writes a radical book on education, pg. 97*18. The ten professors at the College in 1790-91 and 1794-95, pg. 105*19. Champagne's first problem as principal, pg. 106*20. Champagne reports agitation among the students, pg. 110*21. Champagne reports more student unrest, pg. 112*22. The Department of Paris takes a dim view of the colleges, pg. 113*23. Champagne again on student disorders, pg. 115*24. Students volunteering for the army are assured of keeping their scholarships, pg. 118*25. The College is disrupted by the quartering of soldiers, pg. 120*26. Champagne describes the senior scholarships at Equality College, pg. 122*27. The National Convention orders the sale of all college endowments, pg. 125*28. Champagne reports that the Equality College must close unless aided financially, pg. 132*29. Champagne reports statistics on College income and expenses, pg. 134*30. Equality College and its director are denounced as aristocrats, pg. 142*31. The College's cash and silver are confiscated, pg. 145*32. The College library is confiscated, pg. 146*33. Champagne reports on the difficulties of the preceding years and the present state of the College, pg. 148*34. Champagne offers a plan for the Scholarship Institute, pg. 155*35. Two scholarship students return from the wars, pg. 163*36. The further sale of college endowments is halted, pg. 166*37. A Catholic journalist denounces a "college of atheists", pg. 169*38. Champagne publishes his Politics of Aristotle, pg. 172*39. Champagne's Aristotle is noted in the Ministry of the Interior, pg. 174*40. Request for repair of buildings damaged by war and revolution, pg. 175*41. The Prytaneum assembles at its new country place at Vanvres, pg. 176*42. A former professor, changing his mind, recalls the College as a hotbed of revolution, pg. 180*43. The Prytaneum is divided into four, pg. 184*44. A tour of inspection by Napoleon Bonaparte, pg. 188*45. The Lycee is introduced, pg. 194*46. The Lycee is to have older virtues, pg. 201*47. A solid curriculum, pg. 205*48. Regulations for lycees 1803, pg. 207*49. Swimming lessons, pg. 218*50. The Imperial University, pg. 219*51. The new University receives what i s left of the old endowments, pg. 229*52. The Imperial Lycee-or Louis-le-Grand old and new, pg. 232*53. "Ideas on Public Education Presented to the National Assembly", pg. 237*54. Views on the Organization of Public Instruction in Schools Destined for the Young, April 1800, pg. 259*Bibliographical Note, pg. 293*References, pg. 297*Acknowledgments and References for Illustrations, pg. 300