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22-441: Lycée et collège Victor-Duruy is a public high school and sixth-form college /junior and senior high school in the 7th arrondissement of Paris . As of 2012 most of its approximately 2,000 students live in the 7th and 15th arrondissements. It opened on 8 October 1912 as a state sixth-form college for girls, in a former religious girls' educational institution that was later used as an artist's colony. It had primary classes until

44-530: A factory worker, and at first intended for his father's trade. Having passed brilliantly through the École Normale Supérieure , where he studied under Jules Michelet , he accompanied Michelet as secretary in his travels through France, substituting for him at the École Normale in 1836, when only twenty-four. Ill health forced him to resign, and poverty caused him to undertake writing an extensive series of school textbooks, which made him well known. He devoted himself to secondary school education, holding his chair in

66-516: A member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques , which was re-established in 1832, and, in 1837, was made the permanent secretary. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1836, and sought no further honours. Mignet was well known in fashionable circles where his witty conversation and pleasant manners made him a favourite. Most of his time was devoted to study and to his academic duties. Eulogies on his deceased fellow-members,

88-658: A well-deserved success, including, Charles Quint, son abdication, son séjour et sa mort au monastère de Yuste (1845); Antonio Perez et Philippe II. (1845); and Histoire de la rivalité de François Ier et de Charles Quint (1875). At the same time, he was commissioned to publish the diplomatic acts relating to the War of the Spanish Succession for the Collection des documents inédits . Only four volumes of these Négotiations were published (1835–1842), and they do not go further than

110-665: The Christian Brothers ' boarding school in Passy (the Pensionnat des Frères des écoles chrétiennes à Passy ) and complimented the Brothers "in the most flattering terms upon the appearance and tendency of the pensionnat". Another ministerial visit took place on 12 May of the same year, caused by the resistance to the projet de loi for special instruction which was manifested in the parliamentary commission which had been appointed to examine

132-548: The College Henri IV at Paris for over a quarter of a century. Already known as a historian by his Histoire des Romains et des peuples soumis à leur domination (7 vols, 1843–1844), he was chosen by Napoleon III to assist him in his biography of Julius Caesar , and his abilities being thus brought under the emperor's notice, he was in 1863 appointed minister of education. In this position he worked incessantly, attempting broad and liberal reforms. On 18 March 1864, Duruy visited

154-604: The Middle Ages . He and historian Francois Guizot invented the concept of the bourgeois revolution. These include, De la féodalité, des institutions de Saint Louis et de l'influence de la législation de ce prince (1822); La Germanie au VIIIe et au IXe siècle, sa conversion au Christianisme, et son introduction dans la société civilisée de l'Europe occidentale (1834); Essai sur la formation territoriale et politique de la France depuis la fin du XIe siècle jusqu'à la fin du XVe (1836); all of which are rough sketches that mainly outline

176-636: The Peace of Nijmegen ; however, the introduction is celebrated, and Mignet reprinted it in his Mélanges historiques . Mignet was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1876. He died in Paris in 1884 at age 87. A eulogy was delivered by Victor Duruy on entering the Académie Française on 18 June 1885. [REDACTED]   This article incorporates text from

198-533: The lycées and of the colleges. He greatly improved the state of primary education in France, and proposed to make it compulsory and free of charge, but failed to obtain the emperor's support for this move. In the new cabinet that followed the elections of 1869, Duruy was replaced by Louis Olivier Bourbeau , and was made a senator. After the fall of the Empire he took no part in politics, except for an unsuccessful candidacy for

220-567: The Academy reports on its work, and on the prizes awarded by it, which it was part of Mignet's duty as secretary to draw up, were thoroughly appreciated by connoisseurs, and were collected in Mignet's Notices et portraits . He worked slowly and lingered over research. With the exception of his description of the French Revolution , which was chiefly a political manifesto, all his early works refer to

242-567: The Liberal paper, Le Courrier français , where he became a member of the staff which carried on a fierce pen-and-ink warfare against the Restoration . He acquired his knowledge of the men and intrigues of the Napoleonic epoch from Talleyrand . Mignet's Histoire de la révolution française (1824), in support of the Liberal cause, was an enlarged sketch, prepared in four months, in which more stress

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264-463: The first Western-style state higher education institution in the Ottoman Empire . Among his measures were the reorganization of higher education ( enseignement spécial ), the foundation of the conférences publiques , which became universal throughout France, and of a course of secondary education for girls by lay teachers. He introduced modern history and modern languages into the curriculum both of

286-455: The post- World War II period. It was renovated in the 1950s, became coeducational in 1971, and received a second renovation from 1986 to 1996. 48°51′09″N 2°18′54″E  /  48.8525°N 2.3150°E  / 48.8525; 2.3150 This French school-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Victor Duruy Duruy was born in Paris, the son of

308-718: The revised edition of his Roman history, which appeared in a greatly enlarged form in 5 vols. under the title of Histoire des Romains depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à la mort de Théodose ( History of the Romans from the Most Ancient Times up to the Death of Theodosius ; 1879–1885), an illustrated edition was published from 1879 to 1885 (English translation by Clarke & Miss Ripley, in 6 vols., 1883–1886). His Histoire des Grecs , similarly illustrated, appeared in 3 volumes from 1886 to 1891 (English translation in 4 volumes, 1892). He

330-578: The senate in 1876. From 1881 to 1886 he served as a member of the Conseil Supérieur de l'Instruction Publique . In 1884 he was elected to the Académie française in succession to François Mignet . In 1886, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society . As an historian Duruy aimed in his earlier works at a graphic and picturesque narrative which should make his subject popular. His fame, however, rests mainly on

352-497: The subject. To overcome this opposition M. Duruy invited the members of the commission to accompany him to Passy, in order to demonstrate to them, as he expressed it, the successful realization of his project by the Christian Brothers. Ironically, despite open domestic opposition to his views in education, he was instrumental in the reformation of Galatasaray High School in 1868, in strict concordance with his secular views, as

374-531: The subjects. Mignet's most famous works are devoted to modern history. For many years, he immersed himself into history of the Reformation , but only one part of his writings, dealing with the Reformation at Geneva , was published. His Histoire de Marie Stuart (2 vols., 1851) made use of previously unpublished documents from the archives of Simancas . He devoted several volumes to a history of Spain, which had

396-505: The title of Un Ministre: Victor Duruy . See also the notice by Jules Simon (1895), and Portraits et souvenirs by Gabriel Monod (1897). Fran%C3%A7ois Mignet François Auguste Marie Mignet ( French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa oɡyst maʁi miɲɛ] , 8 May 1796 – 24 March 1884) was a French journalist and historian of the French Revolution . He was born in Aix-en-Provence ( Bouches-du-Rhône ), France. His father

418-526: Was a locksmith from the Vendée , who enthusiastically accepted the principles of the French Revolution and encouraged liberal ideas in his son. François had brilliant success at Avignon in the lycée where he became a teacher in 1815. He returned to Aix to study law, and in 1818 was called to the bar, where his eloquence would have ensured his success had he not been more interested in the study of history. His abilities were shown in an Éloge de Charles VII , which

440-623: Was honoured by the Académie de Nîmes in 1820, and a memoire on Les Institutions de Saint Louis , which in 1821 was honoured by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres . He then went to Paris, where he was soon joined by his friend and compatriot Adolphe Thiers , the future president of the French Republic. He was introduced by Jacques-Antoine Manuel , formerly a member of the Convention, to

462-632: Was laid on fundamental theories than on the facts. In 1830, he founded Le National with Thiers and Armand Carrel , and signed the journalists' protest against the July Ordinances , however, he refused to profit from his party's victory. He was satisfied with the modest position of Director of the Archives at the Foreign Office, where he stayed till the revolution of 1848, when he was dismissed, and retired permanently into private life. He had been elected

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484-949: Was the editor, from its commencement in 1846, of the Histoire universelle, publiée par une société de professeurs et de savants , for which he himself wrote a "Histoire sainte d'après la Bible," "Histoire grecque," "Histoire romaine," "Histoire du moyen âge," "Histoire des temps modernes," and "Abrégé de l'histoire de France." His other works include Atlas historique de la France accompagné d'un volume de texte (1849); Histoire de France de 1453 à 1815 (1856), of which an expanded and illustrated edition appeared as Histoire de France depuis l'invasion des Barbares dans la Gaule romaine jusqu'à nos jours (1892); Histoire populaire de la France (1862–1863); Histoire populaire contemporaine de la France (1864–1866); Causeries de voyage: de Paris à Vienne (1864); and Introduction générale à l'histoire de France (1865). A memoir by Ernest Lavisse appeared in 1895 under

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