Chapter 1959 The Incomplete Knight (5)

The meal that the school entertained Georgiana for lunch was Rouen’s local delicacies, Rouen-style squab and layer cake, as well as a bottle of apple brandy, which can be called an ordinary meal at Hogwarts University of Rouen

However, the students ate happily, just like celebrating a festival. They sat at rows of tables. They did not eat in separate schools like a magic school, but friends gathered together to chat and eat.

However, regardless of the chef's skills, it is estimated that it is difficult for anyone to have the appetite to eat in this place - the wooden courtyard of this two-story building is full of skeletons.

There are skulls, leg bones, and death statues of underage children everywhere on the beams, window frames, corridors, and arcades. All the wood is painted black, even if there is an occasional Madonna and Child.

The sculptures also serve no purpose and are full of the smell of death.

In fact, as early as 1253, this place was the largest public parish cemetery in Rouen. When the Black Death swept Europe in the 14th century, Rouen was not spared. At first, there were still people buried, and then they began to quickly cremate the deceased. The north wing of this courtyard

It was originally planned to store the ashes of victims of the Black Death in urns, but the attic was not repaired and so many dead were brought in that it became a morgue.

In order to reduce the risk of infection, people dug a pit in the yard, and buried the bodies of men, women, old and young who would not be cremated in the future. This meant that anyone who dug down with a hoe might find the skeletons, so the newly built greenhouse

So we moved to the Academy of Fine Arts next door.

That was the case at that time. Didn't Leonardo da Vinci dissect a lot of corpses? Art and corpses are almost the same. Before they became famous, many painters were very poor. They also had to buy paints for painting. Their limited life forced them to rent a house next to this cemetery.

, later someone opened art teaching courses, and in 1741 a famous painter came back to fund the establishment of the Rouen Academy of Fine Arts, so it became the "University in the Cemetery" (Une école dans un cimetière).

These painters also have a "humor". There is a print called "The Dance of Death", in which two skeletons are holding the Pope's hand, singing and dancing. This is a colored print, the Pope looks at the sad face, and the two skeletons "

"Laughing" quite happily.

If anyone has nothing to do, if you look carefully at the skeletons, you will find that they all have "smiles". The wood carvings decorated on the pillars have removed the mandibles, so that the skeletons have no smiles, and there are also crossed leg bones.

It looks like a pirate flag, with crossed sickles and shovels engraved on the bottom, which represents Ankou, the god of death in Breton mythology. He will collect the souls of the dead from the graves and put them

Take it to the underworld.

This God of Death is not full-time like Hades. The last person to die in each region's calendar year will be called Ankou in the next year. If many people die that year, it means that this Ankou is particularly evil.

The last person to die a year before the Black Death in Rouen happened to be a farmer, so the sickle and shovel became the symbol of Anko.

It is estimated that about 10,000 people were buried here. Under each of the big trees in the yard was a large grave. During the French Revolution, this place was used as a revolutionary club and a textile workshop.

Around the middle of the 17th century, a priest recruited children from poor families and opened a school here. A house was built within the south wall of the courtyard as a school building and residence. Later, the student enrollment expanded, and the two-story buildings on both sides were built.

The reform of higher education during the Revolution was also an important aspect. University universitas or collegium means guild in Latin. Guilds are usually called associations. Guilds implement internal autonomy, but university guilds are different from handicraft guilds.

In intellectual life, every city has its own style.

For example, the University of Paris gave birth to the "University of Sirs", where teachers speak on the stage and students listen below. Italy is a "university of students". For example, Galileo and others lectured in Padua. If the lecture is good, not only will the audience be full, but also the audience will be full.

Someone else pays.

The "student university" model is very unfamiliar to countries such as Scotland, England, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany, because they all continue the "student university" model of the University of Paris. Teachers represent authority, and teachers' salaries are also determined by the school.

In Padua, students decide teachers’ salaries, and even the selection of professors, tuition fees, semesters and teaching hours are also decided by IOU students.

Closing the school is a big deal for the students of Hogwarts, because they are a group of teenagers. The school was also closed when Newton was studying in London. It was also because of the plague, but the University of Rouen was closed because of the Revolution.

In 1791, the National Assembly passed a decree canceling all social groups in the country because "a truly free country does not allow any closed group to be independent." Since the school was run by the church at the time, the decree was equivalent to canceling the opening of the church.

The school's legality, then the University of Rouen closed.

What kind of education was there during the Revolution? Everything came out. It was not until 1799 when Napoleon came to power that he attached great importance to education, but he focused on science and engineering. The Ecole Polytechnique in Paris received a lot of care. The University of Rouen was far away from the capital and located in a remote area.

No one cares about the regional universities at all, and it is even illegal for these students to stay here, because according to the provisions of the Education Law: secondary schools are not allowed to be opened without government permission. In principle, colleges and universities are run by the state, because education is a

a national function.

The poor students were so poor that they had no place to live, so the factory owners who used to run textile factories made room for them. Anyway, no workers wanted to go to this damn place.

Medieval universities composed of scholars had to resist external pressure. The church exercised a cultural monopoly and tried its best to exert influence on the university in an attempt to recruit them to its students.

The royal power and local governments will also see the benefits that universities bring to them, and compete with the church for control of universities.

This involves the issue of secularization and academicization of the university. The biggest difference between Slughorn and Professor Snape is also the same. Snape is academic. His improved wolfsbane potion works, but it is expensive.

It does not bring profits to drug companies. As for Slughorn, he has a display stand with all his protégés on it. If Voldemort does not go crazy later, he will be the brightest star on the display stand.

In the process of secularizing the university, it is inevitable to cooperate with local enterprises, but secularization and vulgarity are not the same concepts. Rather than donating money, the principal hopes that Georgiana can help him apply for a charter for the school, so that members of the Rouen Chamber of Commerce

We can donate money with confidence and boldness.

This principal may have lived in a closed country for too long, and he doesn't know that the charter has been cancelled.

She really wanted Bonaparte to come here and see what impact he had by freeing tuition for the Paris Ecole. The students studying in Paris were of course happy. In the Middle Ages, medical students had to pay their own tuition, and the nobles also regarded their sponsors as sponsors.

Universities are used as a means to win over people.

In the past, being a doctor had to go to an art college. In 1781, the art college next door closed down, so the medical school moved the teaching building there, and the place to live had to make do with this centuries-old wooden building.

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But she expected that he would be indifferent. Medicine was also divided into internal medicine and surgery. He supported surgeons because surgeons were very effective on the battlefield. He didn't believe in internal medicine, just like he didn't believe in lawyers.

She really realized that once she learned something, Josephine would never come to a place like this. She was even afraid of Marie Antoinette's ghost, let alone a school like this.

Philiel looked quite calm, Figur had been on the battlefield and performed well, but Margaret was a little on the verge of tears.

This is actually not scary. There are more dead people buried in the Paris catacombs. Of course, she may not know it. If she doesn't know, she won't be afraid.

If you smelled carefully, there was a strong smell of corpses in this wooden house. After all, there were tens of thousands of people rotting together in the yard next door, but she didn't want to cover it up with the fragrance.

While she was cutting the squab on the plate, she was chatting and laughing with the principal.

The children in the audience must be curious about what they are talking about.

What else can we talk about?

Anyway, this place is inaccessible and full of trees. Luck liked building buildings so much, so she asked him to build one. If someone squandered money to buy jewelry, she would spend it on this. Regardless of whether the building was successful or not, she wanted to find something to do for the children.

Just like when she asked the maids of the Grand Trianon to copy books, she was idle.
Chapter completed!