University Stendhal: University Stendhal never forgotten as its distant origins Grenoble . Founded in 1339 and installed by the Dauphin Humbert II Tower Isle attached to the current art museum , the University of Grenoble tent from his birth to imitate the Sorbonne and compete with fellow Lyon. It teaches canon law , civil law , medicine and liberal arts . The students receive room and board , the supreme privilege when one knows the hard times .
From 14th to 19th century it underwent a story eclipses due to tough competition at the University of Valencia, founded in 1452 by Louis XI to the aura of the prestigious University of Paris that draws its members the best students. Champollion, Stendhal , Berlioz , to mention only the most famous, and make the trip.
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It will be closed once in 1367. Many attempts to reopen will end in failure , others will find a more positive approach . Judged corporatist and conservative like her sisters, the Revolution condemned to disappear in 1793.
Early 19th century, Napoleon created the Imperial University , which is in fact a mere administrative body . Grenoble is home to an academy that brings together in 1879 , Place de Verdun , the faculties of Law , Humanities and Sciences , totally independent of each other and placed under the direct supervision of the rector .
In 1896 , the matheysin and art critic Marcel Reymond founded the current Patronage Committee of Foreign Students attached to the Faculty of Letters . There exempt courses of art history .
The University of Grenoble reactivated by the third Republic has about 560 students in the late 19th century. Formal grouping of faculties , she gained some momentum with the development of an industrial fabric born of the discovery of coal by Aristide Berges White in 1869. As noted by the geographer Armand Frémont : " From this time , when the establishment of a triangular system typical Grenoble , combining strong university research and industry . "