"Ma grande église et ma petite chapelle" 150 years of elective affinities between the Collège de France and the École pratique des hautes études.
Study day organized by Jean-Luc Fournet, Chair of Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology.
" Ma grande église et ma petite chapelle : this is how Gaston Paris described the two institutions between which he divided his lectures on medieval French literature, the Collège de France and the École pratique des hautes études, in 1894. Since the creation of the latter in 1868, actively promoted by professors from the Collège de France, these two houses of " science en voie de se faire " (Ernest Renan) have never ceased to develop complementary links, as illustrated by the large number of teachers who have worked in both, sometimes simultaneously : Claude Bernard, Marcel Mauss, Lucien Febvre, Georges Dumézil, Émile Benveniste, Fernand Braudel, Louis Robert, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes... the list goes on. It is these 150 years of elective affinities and crossed paths that this study day will retrace : the fertile relationship between the two institutions will be addressed through contributions on their shared intellectual history and portraits of some of the elders who distinguished themselves in each.