The University of Tours (french: Université de Tours), formerly François Rabelais University of Tours (french: Université François Rabelais), is a

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Tours Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Indre-et-Loire. The Communes of France, commune of Tours had 136,463 ...

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. Founded in 1969, the university was formerly named after the French writer

François Rabelais François Rabelais ( , , ; born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He is primarily known as a writer of satire, of the grotesque, and of bawdy jokes and ...

. It is the largest university in the

Centre-Val de Loire Centre-Val de Loire (, , ,In isolation, ''Centre'' is pronounced . ) or Centre Region (french: région Centre, link=no, ), as it was known until 2015, is one of the eighteen administrative regions of France. It straddles the middle Loire Valley ...

region. As of July 2015, it is a member of the regional university association Leonardo da Vinci consolidated University.

History

The University of Tours was established as part of efforts to modernize and democratize higher education in France after the events of 1968. The university was created by grouping together a number of older educational institutions.

Organisation

The university has a number of campuses, often dedicated to a specific faculty, distributed across the city of Tours: * Plat d’Étain (administration and offices) * Tanneurs (languages and literature, arts and humanities) * Tonnellé (medicine) * Portalis/Deux-Lions (engineering, law, economics, geography) * Grandmont (sciences, pharmaceutical studies) * Pont-Volant (contains a

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) * Fromont * Émile Zola The university also has a satellite campus in

Blois Blois ( ; ) is a commune and the capital city of Loir-et-Cher department, in Centre-Val de Loire, France, on the banks of the lower Loire river between Orléans and Tours. With 45,898 inhabitants by 2019, Blois is the most populated city of the ...

Academics

The Portalis Campus. The university comprises seven departments, as well as an engineering school and two technology institutes: * Department of Arts and Humanities * Center for Advanced Renaissance Studies (''Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance'') * Department of Law, Economics and Social Sciences * Department of Literature and Languages * Department of Medicine * Department of Sciences and Technology * Department of Pharmacy * School of Engineering ('' École polytechnique de l'université de Tours'') * Tours University Institute of Technology (''Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Tours'') * Blois University Institute of Technology (''Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Blois'') The university offers bachelor, master and doctorate degrees in line with the Bologna Process. It also provides Technological Diploma courses (''diplômes universitaire de technologie'') through the two University Institutes of Technology. Several other institutions operate within the framework of the university: * ''École publique de journalisme de Tours'', a semi-autonomous journalism school affiliated to the university. * ''Centre hospitalier régional et universitaire de Tours (CHU de Tours)'', a grouping of six regional hospitals affiliated to the university that collaborate on health services and medical training. * ''Institut européen d'histoire et des cultures de l'alimentation'', a humanities and social sciences research center that studies the history of food cultures.

Research

Research at the university is at the forefront in the social sciences and humanities in the study of the Renaissance through the Graduate Center of the Renaissance since 1956 and in knowledge of food heritage through a program ambitious research at the Institute of European history and culture of food. The University of Tours is also distinguished in the field of materials for energy technology research with the Microelectronic at CERTEM in collaboration with ST Microelectronics in 1996. The research also extends into the field of medical imaging and bio-medicine, oncology, and eminently in the study of autism at the University Hospital of Tours. Geo-science and environment with the study of insects at the Institute for Research on the biology of the insect (IRBI). Since 1969 the CESA, Planning Department today Polytech'Tours research in the field of cities, territories and societies is deemed to France. Finally the University of Tours works in the field of mathematical research through the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics.

Rankings

In 2022, the

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placed François Rabelais University in the 901-1000 band of universities in the world and in the 28-30 band of universities in France. François Rabelais University undergraduate law program is ranked 3rd in France by

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, with 3 stars (2016/17).

Notable people

Faculty *

Raymond Chevallier Raymond Chevallier (21 June 1929 – 30 November 2004) was a French historian, archaeologist and Latinist. A former member of the École française de Rome, honorary president of the "Société française de Photogrammétrie et télédétection ...

(1929-2004) - historian, archaeologist and Latinist * Michel Arrivé (1936-2017) - novelist, short story writer, linguist *

Maurice Sartre Maurice Sartre (born 3 October 1944) is a French historian, an Emeritus professor of ancient history at the François Rabelais University, a specialist in ancient Greek and Eastern Roman history, especially the Hellenized Middle East, from Alexand ...

(born 1944) - historian * Jean Germain (1947-2015) - university president; socialist politician * Jean-Paul Goux (born 1948) - writer *

Gregory Grefenstette Gregory Grefenstette is a French and American researcher and professor in computer science, in particular artificial intelligence and natural language processing. , he is the chief scientific officer at Biggerpan, a company developing a predict ...

(born 1956) - French and American researcher and professor in computer science * Christian Delporte (born 1958 in Paris) - specialist in political and cultural history of France in the twentieth century *

Éric de Chassey Éric de Buretel de Chassey (born 1965, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is a French historian of French art, art critic, and professor of contemporary art history at François Rabelais University in Tours, France. He has had students from many dif ...

(born 1965, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.) - historian of French art, art critic *

Kilien Stengel Kilien Stengel (born 1972 in Nevers (Nièvre)), is a French gastronomic author, restaurateur, and cookbook writer. He has worked at Gidleigh Park, Nikko Hotels, Georges V Hotel in Paris, and in a number of Relais & Châteaux restaurants (incl ...

(born 1972) - gastronomic author, restaurateur, and cookbook writer *

Claire Sotinel Claire Sotinel is a Professor of Ancient History at l'Université de Paris-Est Créteil (Paris 12 Val de Marne University). She is an expert on Italy in late antiquity, religion, society, and prosopography. Education Sotinel received her PhD f ...

- historian; expert on Italy in late antiquity, religion, society, and prosopography Alumni *

Moshe Prywes Moshe Prywes (משה פריבס; January 3, 1914 - March 1998) was a Polish-Israeli physician and educator. He was the first President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (1973-1975). Biography Prywes was born in Warsaw, Poland. He studied medi ...

(1914-1998) - Israeli physician and first president of

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. * Bruno Schroder (1933-2019) - British banker and billionaire *

Sadreddin Elahi Sadreddin Elahi (Persian: صدرالدین الهی; 4 December 1934 – 29 December 2021) was an Iranian journalist, professor, activist, and author. He is often referred to as the "Pioneer of Modern Iranian Journalism". He served as dean of t ...

(1934-2021) - Iranian journalist and author *

Peter Stasiuk Bishop Peter Stasiuk, C.Ss.R. ( uk, Петро Стасюк; born 16 July 1943 in Roblin, Manitoba, Canada) is an Australian Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch. He served as the second Eparchial Bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saints Pet ...

(born 16 July 1943 in Roblin,

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, Canada) - Australian Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch *

Bruno Latour Bruno Latour (; 22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022) was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist.Wheeler, Will. ''Bruno Latour: Documenting Human and Nonhuman Associations'' Critical Theory for Library and Information Science. Libraries ...

(1947-2022) - philosopher *

Marie-Laure Augry Marie-Laure Augry (born 27 February 1947 in Tours) is a French journalist. She is a member of the ''Club des médiateurs de la presse'' ( "Press mediators' club"). Career After studying journalism at the IUT of Tours, Augry joined ORTF as a poli ...

(born 1947, in Tours) -

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journalist. * Jean-Pierre Ouvrard (1948-1992) - musicologist, music educator and choral conductor *

Adolé Isabelle Glitho-Akueson Adolé Isabelle Glitho-Akueson (born 4 May 1949) is a Togolese entomologist who is Professor of Animal Biology at the University of Lomé. She is the chair of UNESCO's "Women, Science and Sustainable Water Management in West Africa and Central Af ...

(born 1949, in

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) - Professor of Animal Biology at the University of Lome. *

Souleymane Mboup Souleymane Mboup (born 1951) is a Senegalese microbiologist, medical researcher, and colonel in the Armed Forces of Senegal. In 1985, he was a member of the first team to identify HIV-2, a form of HIV that is typically found in West Africa and is ...

(born 1951) - Senegalese microbiologist, medical researcher, and colonel in the Armed Forces of

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* Chioma Opara (born 1951 in Jos,

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) - author and academic whose work primarily focuses on West African feminism * Jean-Daniel Flaysakier ((1951-2021) - physician and journalist * Patrick Pietropoli (born 1953) - painter and sculptor *

Amadou Koné Amadou Koné is a writer from Cote d'Ivoire. Childhood He is the son of Soma Denbie (said Mamadou Koné) and Kahou Sirima (known Karidia Koulibali). Amadou Koné was born in May 1953 in the small village of Tangora in the circle of Banfora, tod ...

(born 1953, in what is now

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) - taught literature, culture and African history at

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* Géraldine Legendre (born 1953) - French-American cognitive scientist and linguist * Regina Yaou (1955-2017) - writer from

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Catherine Colonna Catherine Colonna ( (born 16 April 1956) is a French diplomat and politician who serves as Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne since 20 May 2022. Colonna previously served as Ambassador ...

(born 1956) - diplomat and politician * Mark Ormerod (civil servant) (born 1957) - British civil servant and chief executive of the

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from 2015 to 2020 *

Sabine Thillaye Sabine Thillaye (born 18 May 1959) is a French-German entrepreneur and politician who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since 18 June 2017, representing the 5th constituency of the departement of Indre-et-Loire. She ...

(born 1959) - French-German entrepreneur and politician (

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) *

Philippe Briand Philippe Briand (born 26 October 1960 in Tours) was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the Indre-et-Loire Indre-et-Loire () is a department in west-central France named after the Indre River and Loire River. In 2019, ...

(born 1960, in Tours) - member of the

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( LR) * Laurent Percerou (born 1961) - bishop of the Catholic Church *

Renaud Machart Renaud Machart (born 22 March 1962) is a French journalist, music critic, radio producer and music producer. Biography Renaud Machart was born in Lannion, and first studied music under the direction of his father and then with Claudette Bohn, pr ...

(born 1962) - journalist, music critic, radio producer and music producer *

Joël Bruneau Joël Bruneau (born 7 September 1963) is a French politician, mayor of Caen since 2014. He was reelected in 2020. Distinctions * Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. See also * List of mayors of Caen This is a list of mayors of Caen s ...

(born 1963) - politician ( LR) *

Éric Brunet Éric Brunet (born 22 July 1964) is a French author, political commentator and radio host. In 2010, he started hosting ''Radio Brunet'', known as ''Carrément Brunet'' until 2016, on RMC with 700,000 daily listeners as of 2018. In 2020, Brunet ...

(born 1964) - author, political commentator and radio host *

Fabrice Lhomme Fabrice Lhomme (born 1965) is a French investigative journalist for ''Le Monde''. Early life Fabrice Lhomme was born on 17 November 1965. He was educated in a boarding school in Normandy. He attended François Rabelais University in Tours, where ...

(born 1965) - investigative journalist for

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Alexandra Goujon Alexandra Goujon (born 1 June 1972) is a French people, French political scientist. She is a professor of political science at the University of Burgundy. She specializes in political conflict and regime change in Eastern Europe, particularly Ukr ...

(born 1972) - political scientist *

Harry Roselmack Harry Roselmack (born 20 March 1973 in Tours) is a French radio and TV journalist of Martiniquan descent. Career Harry Roselmack graduated with degrees in History ( DEUG) and Journalism (DUT). He began to work for a local radio station, durin ...

(born 1973, in Tours) - TF1 journalist. * Stéphanie Rist (born 1973) - rheumatologist and politician (

) * Maboula Soumahoro (born 1976 in Paris) - scholar and Afro-feminist *

Jean-Pascal Chaigne Jean-Pascal Chaigne (born 1977) is a French composer. Following initial studies at the Conservatoire National de Région de Tours and the University of Tours, he was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris where he obtained first prizes in analysis ...

(born 1977) - composer *

Géraldine Chauvet Géraldine Chauvet is a French operatic mezzo-soprano. Early life She was born in Bayeux and studied music at the University of Tours, initially specializing in flute and piano. She studied singing with Udo Reinmann, later with Mezzo-soprano G ...

- operatic mezzo-soprano *

Charlotte Opimbat Charlotte Opimbat, née Mboundza Moke Ekotikambi is a Congolese Party of Labour (PCT) politician in Congo-Brazzaville. She is the Deputy in the National Assembly for the second Poto-Poto constituency, Brazzaville Department. Life After primary s ...

- Congolese politician * Ludovic Ferrière (born 1982 in Blois, France) - geologist and curator of meteorite collection at the

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, Austria Honorary degree recipients *

Martín Berasategui Martín Berasategui Olazábal is a Spanish chef expert in Basque cuisine and owner of an eponymous restaurant in Lasarte-Oria (Gipuzkoa), Spain. Since 2001 it has been awarded three Michelin stars. He holds twelve stars in total, more than any ...

(born 1960) - Spanish chef expert in Basque cuisine

References

External links

Official website
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Les Cahiers d’EMAM
Études sur le Monde Arabe et la Méditerranée'' , academic journal published by Équipe Monde arabe Méditerranée, CITERES, Université de Tour

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