Paris in the 16th century Lycée Louis-le-Grand) in 1556, which was the single important College in Paris until the Revolution. Students could enter the course of Latin at any age between four and eighteen, though the average age at entrance was eight years old. The education continued for six years, after which students went to the University. A religious order for women, the Ursulines, provided secondary education for young women, but the teaching was limited to reading, writing, sewing and embroidery. The first and primary hospital of Paris was the Hôtel-Dieu, close to the Cathedral of Notre-Dame on the Île-de-la-Cité, founded in the early Middle
Académie de La Palette Académie de La Palette Académie de La Palette, also called Académie La Palette and La Palette, (English: Palette Academy), was a private art school in Paris, France, active between 1888 and 1914, aimed at promoting" 'conciliation entre la liberté et le respect de la tradition'." Early on the "Académie de La Palette" developed a reputation as a progressive art school. In 1902, with Jacques-Émile Blanche as director of the academy, the concept had been 'any attempt at "imitation" are now abandoned' [toute tentative d'imitation étant désormais abandonnée]. From 1912, when Henri Le Fauconnier and Jean Metzinger took over the direction