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Founded in 1220 by Cardinal Conrad and confirmed by papal bull, Université Paul Valéry
(UPV-Montpellier III) is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in Europe.
During the French Revolution, the University was suppressed and replaced by faculties
of medicine, pharmacy, science, and letters of the University
of France. In 1896, it was reestablished as a university. And in 1970,
it was divided into the three units that exist today: Université Montpellier I (the medical school), Université Montpellier
II (the University of Technical Sciences, with faculties of engineering, sciences, and business management), and Montpellier
III (Université Paul Valéry, comprising faculties of arts, letters, philosophy and linguistics, languages, literature, human
and environmental sciences, economics, mathematics, and social sciences).
Université Paul Valéry
(UPV) continues to emphasize the arts and humanities and is well known as a center for research in interdisciplinary topics
such as strategic studies and experimental psychology. The library includes the original 19th-century collections of the Faculty
of Letters.
Total enrollment:
18,000 (one-sixth international).
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| Paul Valéry 1871--1945 |
Poet, essayist, and thinker Paul Ambroise Valéry was born in the Mediterranean town of Séte,
France, on October 30, 1871. He attended the lycée at Montpellier and studied law at the University of Montpellier.
Valéry left school early to move to Paris and pursue a life
as a poet.
Excerpted from Poets. Org, website of the Academy of American Poets.
Click photo to read a biography of Symbolist poet
Paul Valéry and samples of his works.
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