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
Le Spleen de Paris specific examples leading to an unexpected conclusion may have influenced Baudelaire in his creation of "Le Spleen de Paris"." Aloysius Betrand's "Gaspard de la nuit": Baudelaire himself is quoted as citing this work as an inspiration for "Paris Spleen". Gustave Flaubert: Magazine article "No ideas but in Crowds: Baudelaire's "Paris Spleen"" cites similarities between the writers in that like Baudelaire, Flaubert held the same motives and intentions in that he too wanted "to write the moral history of the men of my generation – or, more accurately, the history of their feelings." Critical reception: The way in which the poem