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Prytanée national militaire (France)

LC control no.n 88678206
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Corporate name headingPrytanée national militaire (France)
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Variant(s)France. Prytanée national militaire
Prytanée militaire de La Flèche
Prytanée militaire (France)
See alsoPredecessor: Collège Henri IV de La Flèche
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Beginning date1808
Associated countryFrance
Field of activityMilitary education
Found inBeaupère, 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)