University of France
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The University of France (Université de France, originally the Imperial University of France) was a highly centralized educational state organization founded by Napoleon I in 1806 and given authority over both the individual (previously independent) universities and also primary and secondary education. The former individual universities were henceforth to be known as "academies" (such as the Académie de Paris), but each still retained a rector and local board of its own. The University of France was disbanded in 1896.
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