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
Paris in the 17th century title, "Nouvelles ordinaries de divers androids". In the same year the prominent Parisian doctor and philanthropist, Théophraste Renaudot, launched a weekly newspaper, "La Gazette". Renaudot had good connections with Cardinal Richelieu, and his new paper was given royal patronage; "La Gazette" took over the earlier newspaper, and also became the first to have advertising. Later, in 1762, under the name "Gazette de France", it became the official newspaper of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1665, a new weekly, "Le Journal des savants" appeared, followed in 1672 by "Le Mercure Galant". which in 1724 became the "Mercure de France". The