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 during the Bourbon Restoration instead of shopping only in their own neighborhood. It was soon followed by two similar stores, "Aux Trois Quartiers" (1829) and "Le Petit Saint Thomas" (1830). These are considered by historians the ancestor of the modern department stores, which appeared in Paris the 1840s and 1850s. Another retail innovation took place in December 1824, when the store "la Fille d'honneur" at 26 rue de la Monnaie became to first store in France to put price tags on items. The Passage des Panoramas, opened at the very end of the 18th century, was a model for the new Parisian covered shopping