The University of Tours (), formerly François Rabelais University of Tours (), is a

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Tours Tours ( ; ) is the largest city 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 inhabita ...

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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 writer who has been called the first great French prose author. A Renaissance humanism, humanist of the French Renaissance and Greek scholars in the Renaissance, Gr ...

. It is the largest university in the

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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 University Institute of Technology) * Fromont * Émile Zola The university also has a satellite campus in

Blois Blois ( ; ) is a commune and the capital city of Loir-et-Cher Departments of France, 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 mos ...

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

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. 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

Grandmont Campus (Sciences) - Building L 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

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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 télédétectio ...

(1929-2004) - historian, archaeologist and Latinist *

Michel Arrivé Michel Arrivé (7 December 1936 – 3 April 2017) was a French novelist, short story writer, linguist and academic. He was a Professor of Linguistics and Semiotics at Paris Nanterre University from 1983 to 2006. He authored several novels and shor ...

(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 Alexan ...

(born 1944) - historian * Jean Germain (1947-2015) - university president; socialist politician * Jean-Paul Goux (born 1948) - writer * Gregory Grefenstette (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 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) 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 ...

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

Kilien Stengel Kilien Stengel (born 1972 in Nevers) 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 (including Marc M ...

(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 fr ...

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

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

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. *

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(1933-2019) - British banker and billionaire *

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(born 16 July 1943 in Roblin,

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, Canada) - Australian Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch *

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(1947-2022) - philosopher * Marie-Laure Augry (born 1947, in Tours) -

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journalist. *

Jean-Pierre Ouvrard Jean-Pierre Ouvrard (16 February 1948 in Trémentines (Maine-et-Loire) – 13 November 1992 in Tours (Indre-et-Loire)) was a French musicologist, music educator, researcher at the François Rabelais University and choral conductor. He founded the ...

(1948-1992) - musicologist, music educator and choral conductor * Adolé Isabelle Glitho-Akueson (born 1949, in

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) - Professor of Animal Biology at the University of Lome. * Souleymane Mboup (born 1951) - Senegalese microbiologist, medical researcher, and colonel in the Armed Forces of

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* Chioma Opara (born 1951 in

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) - author and academic whose work primarily focuses on West African feminism *

Jean-Daniel Flaysakier Jean-Daniel Flaysakier, born Jean-Daniel Flajszakier (23 September 1951 – 7 October 2021) was a French doctor and journalist. He was the health and medicine correspondent for and France 2 from 1980 to 2018. Biography Born as Jean-Daniel Fla ...

((1951-2021) - physician and journalist * Patrick Pietropoli (born 1953) - painter and sculptor *

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(born 1953, in what is now

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) - taught literature, culture and African history at

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Géraldine Legendre Géraldine Legendre (born 1953) is a French-American cognitive scientist and linguist known for her work on French grammar, on mathematical models for the development of syntax in natural languages including harmonic grammar and Optimality Theo ...

(born 1953) - French-American cognitive scientist and linguist *

Regina Yaou Regina Yaou (sometimes N'doufou) (10 July 1955 – 4 November 2017) was a writer from Ivory Coast. Life and career Yaou was born in Dabou and raised by her aunt in a literary family, and wrote her first poems between the ages of twelve and fourtee ...

(1955-2017) - writer from

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(born 1956) - diplomat and politician *

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(born 1957) - British civil servant and chief executive of the

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from 2015 to 2020 *

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(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 *

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

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(born 1963) - politician ( LR) *

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(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 (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, during ...

(born 1973, in Tours) -

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journalist. *

Stéphanie Rist Stéphanie Rist (born 6 August 1973) is a French rheumatologist and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since the 2017 elections, representing the department of Loiret. ...

(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 - operatic mezzo-soprano * Charlotte Opimbat - 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 an ...

(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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