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The University of Rennes 1 is a
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located in the city of
Rennes Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine departme ...
, France. It is under the Academy of Rennes. It specializes in science, technology, law, economics, management and philosophy. There are currently about students enrolled, with about members of teaching staff and other staff members employed by the university. In 2023, the University of Rennes 1 will merge with four schools in the "UNIR" project, in order to create a new
University of Rennes The University of Rennes is a public research university which will be officially reconstituted on 1 January 2023 and located in the city of Rennes, in Upper Brittany, France. The University of Rennes has been divided for almost 50 years, be ...
.


History


Creation of the University of Brittany

Asked by Francis II, Duke of Brittany, the Pope created the first university of Brittany in
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in 1460. It taught arts, medicine, law, and theology. In 1728, the mayor of Nantes, Gérard Mellier, asked that the university be moved to Rennes, which was more trade orientated already had the Parliament of Brittany. The law school was moved the Rennes in 1730. In 1793 the
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closed all universities and it was not before 1806 that the Law school reopened in Rennes.


Development of the faculties in Rennes

In 1808,
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reorganized the universities in France, creating the
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. From the 2 original cities housing the University of Brittany, only Rennes was included in this University. Nantes had to wait until 1970 to have again its
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. In 1810 a faculty of letters opened, which gathered in 1839 five schools (French literature, foreign literature, ancient literature, history, and philosophy). The science faculty opened still in Rennes in 1840. Those 3 faculties remained without clear boundaries between them until 1885 with the creation of a "Conseil des facultés" which took in 1896 the name of University of Rennes. In the middle of the 19th century, they were gathered in the Palais Universitaire, located currently in the Quai Émile Zola, but were then scattered downtown. The faculty of law and the faculty of letter were thus relocated in 1909 in the Séminaire, located currently in the Place Hoche.


Creation of the University of Rennes 1

In 1969, in order to enforce the growth of French universities, a law was passed, splitting the University of Rennes into two new entities. This new university took the name of 'University of Rennes 1'.


Creation of the new University of Rennes (UNIR)

In 2023, the University of Rennes 1 will merge with four
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( Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique, École nationale supérieure de chimie de Rennes, ENS Rennes, Sciences-Po Rennes) in the "UNIR" project, in order to create a new
University of Rennes The University of Rennes is a public research university which will be officially reconstituted on 1 January 2023 and located in the city of Rennes, in Upper Brittany, France. The University of Rennes has been divided for almost 50 years, be ...
. The University of Rennes 2 and INSA Rennes, with research institutes (
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, INRAE, Inria, Inserm and CHU de Rennes) are associated with the project. The 7 establishments will be grouped together in an "Experimental Public Establishment" (EPE), weighing nearly 7,000 staff and teachers, including a thousand researchers, 156 research laboratories and 60,000 of the 68,000 students in the Breton capital, including 7,000 international students.


Location

Most of the university's 1.64 km² of grounds lie within the city boundary of Rennes, but it has other sites dotted around
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. The three main
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es are in Beaulieu (in the east of Rennes), Villejean (in the north-west of Rennes) and a central campus. Situated in the north-east of the city, the Beaulieu campus is a large complex that was still in development in 1969. Beaulieu is the home of more than a dozen science buildings (for the Faculties of mathematics, physics, biology and other schools such as the INSA) and one of philosophy. The sports facilities and the students' entertainment building are also located there. In the north-west, the Villejean campus gathers Rennes 2's Faculties of Foreign Languages, Arts, Human Sciences and Social Sciences. Rennes I University's Faculty of Medicine is located on the edge of this Villejean campus, nearby Brittany's largest hospital center, Pontchaillou. The city center holds two separate buildings: the Faculty of Law and Political Science, and the Faculty of Economical Science, in front of which a cloister houses the two faculties' library. There are other sites in Lannion,
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,
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, Fougères and Dinard; some research centers in
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, Paimpont and the isle of Bailleron; and a museum owned by the university in
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(1970), politician, former
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.


Faculty

* Louis Le Duff, billionaire businessman *
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(1801–1860) *
Edmond Hervé Edmond Hervé (born 3 December 1942) is a French politician, a member of the Socialist Party and French senator from 2008 to 2014. He was the mayor of Rennes from 1977 to 2008, succeeding Henri Fréville. Biography Born in La Bouillie, Côte ...
, mayor of Rennes from 1977 to 2008 *
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(1937), politician *
Marcel Planiol Marcel Planiol (23 September 1853 – 31 August 1931) was a French professor of law at the University of Rennes, then at the University of Paris, Sorbonne. He wrote on the law and on historical Brittany. He is known for his ''Elementary Treatise of ...


Points of interest

* Jardin botanique de l'Université de Rennes


See also

* List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945) * University of Rennes 2 * IEP Rennes * IFSIC * Law schools and colleges in France


References

Most of the article was translated from the
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