LC control no. | n 88678206 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Corporate name heading | Prytanée national militaire (France) |
Variant(s) | France. Prytanée national militaire Prytanée militaire de La Flèche Prytanée militaire (France) |
See also | Predecessor: Collège Henri IV de La Flèche |
Beginning date | 1808 |
Associated country | France |
Field of activity | Military education |
Found in | Beaupère, B. Histoire du Prytanée national militaire, c1985: p. 6 (secondary school opened in 1604) GDEL (Prytanée militaire de La Flèche; school for sons of career military officers and civil servants to prepare them to enter a military academy) Grande encyc. (Prytanée militaire; military school located at La Flèche; intended especially to give the sons of officers of the Army and Navy preparation for a military career) Grande encyc.: under Flèche, La (site of a Jesuit college founded byHenri IV, 1604-1762; a military preparatory school after expulsion of the Jesuits, 1762-1776; Doctrinaire college, 1776-1793; suppressed during the Revolution; became the Prytanée national militaire, 1808) |