Collège des quatre-nations
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- Le Bon usage du chocolat dégraissé [MI] 17--?:t.p. (College des quatre nations)
- Grande enc.:v. 27, p. 1120 (Quatre-nations, Collège des; founded 1661 by Mazarin in his will; name changed to Collège de l'Unité; closed during Revolution)
- Hillairet, J. Dict. hist. des rues de Paris, 1979:v. 1, p. 384-385 (Collège Mazarin or Collège des quatre-nations; founded 1661 by will of Card. Mazarin; during Revolution called Collège de l'Unité; suppressed 1793)
- Robertson, I. Paris and environs, 1983:p. 88, article on Institut de France (Inst. de France occupies the building originally built for the Collège Mazarin, which was the official name of the college; its popular name was Collège des Quatre-Nations)
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The Collège des Quatre-Nations ("College of the Four Nations"), also known as the Collège Mazarin after its founder, was one of the colleges of the historic University of Paris. It was founded through a bequest by the Cardinal Mazarin. At his death in 1661, he also bequeathed his library, the Bibliothèque Mazarine, which he had opened to scholars since 1643, to the Collège des Quatre-Nations.
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