Type Public Location Orléans, France Total enrollment 14,153 (2013) Founded 1960 | Established 1306 Website www.univ-orleans.fr Phone +33 2 38 41 71 71 | |
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Address 6 Avenue du Parc Floral, 45100 Orléans, France Notable alumni Ibni Oumar Mahamat Saleh, John Calvin, Pierre de Fermat, Thomas Boni Yayi, Étienne de La Boétie Similar François Rabelais University, Ecole Polytechnique de l'Unive, University of Poitiers, University of Nantes, University of Paris Profiles | ||
The University of Orléans (French: Université d'Orléans) is a renowned French university, in the Academy of Orléans and Tours. As of July 2015 it is a member of the regional university association Leonardo da Vinci consolidated University.
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History
In 1230, when for a time the doctors of the University of Paris were scattered, a number of the teachers and disciples took refuge in Orléans; when pope Boniface VIII, in 1298, promulgated the sixth book of the Decretals, he appointed the doctors of Bologna and the doctors of Orléans to comment upon it.
St. Yves (1253–1303) studied civil law at Orléans, and Pope Clement V also studied there law and letters; by a Papal Bull published at Lyon, 27 January 1306, he endowed the Orléans institutes with the title and privileges of a University (it has been founded as one of the very earliest universities outside Italy in 1235, only two years after Cambridge, in France only Paris' Sorbonne was even older).
Twelve later popes granted the new university many privileges. In the 14th century it had as many as five thousand students from France, Germany, Lorraine, Burgundy, Champagne, Picardy, Normandy, Touraine, Guyenne and Scotland.
The current university was founded in 1960, after its medieval predecessor was closed down in 1793 and merged into the University of France in 1808.