‎VALANT, J.-H.‎
‎Des Saisies faites dans les maisons d'éducation, par ordre de l'Université née Impériale, Mémoire adressé à la Chambre des Députés, au nom de tous les instituteurs de la France.‎

‎Paris, 1814. 15, (1) pp. Small 8vo. Disbound. The Imperial University was a teaching corporation rather than a university and had theoretically as its membership all those involved in educating males in France. The university came into being by decree of March 17, 1808 and Napoleon wanted the teachers to be laymen rather than clerics, and he desired an organization modeled on the army's. The university aimed at a monopoly of public education, another purpose was to obtain for the lycées the pupils they lacked. When private schools proliferated, their number was reduced by heavy financial burdens; the university reform of 1811, aimed at making the university monopoly a reality, strictly regulated nonuniversity establishments, and limited ecclestiastical schools to one per department. The present text deals with a tax levied and collected by the Imperial University. ‎

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