For two magical sous
more, we bought the Programme of the College Royal de France, on
which we still read with admiring memory, that every Monday,
Silvestre de Sacy lectures on the Persian language; at other hours,
Lacroix on the Integral Mathematics; Jouffroy on Greek Philosophy;
Biot on Physics; Lerminier on the History of Legislation; Elie de
Beaumont on Natural History; Magendie on Medicine; Thenard on
Chemistry; Binet on Astronomy; and so on, to the end of the week. On
the same wonderful ticket, as if royal munificence had not yet
sufficed, we learned that at the Museum of Natural History, at the
Garden of Plants, three days in the week, Brongniart would teach
Vegetable Physiology, and Gay-Lussac Chemistry, and Flourent Anatomy.
With joy we read these splendid news in the Cafe Procope, and
straightway joined the troop of students of all nations, kindreds,
and tongues, whom this great institution drew together to listen to
the first _savans_ of the world without fee or reward. The
professors are changed, but the liberal doors still stand open at
this hour. This royal liberality, which seems to atone for so many
possible abuses of power, could not exist without important
consequences to the student on his return home.
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