The University of Poitiers is a public university located in Poitiers, France, and a member of the Coimbra Group of universities. It was founded in 1431 by Pope Eugene IV and chartered by King Charles VII, and it began with five faculties: theology, canon law, civil law, medicine and arts. In the sixteenth century it was ranked second only to Paris among French universities, and its students included Joachim Du Bellay, Francois Rabelais and Rene Descartes. Provincial universities were abolished at the French Revolution and it reopened in 1796 as a merger of several schools. Today it welcomes close to 28,000 students and gives Poitiers the highest ratio of students to inhabitants of any French city.
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Founded in 1431 by Pope Eugene IV and chartered by King Charles VII
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