Toulouse Capitole University

Toulouse Capitole University is a public university in Toulouse, France. It is one of the three universities of the city of Toulouse, in southwestern France. The university, presided by Hugues Kenfack, focuses on the social sciences, law, political science, economics and administration. An active member of the federal University of Toulouse, it became an experimental public institution on January 1, 2023. History Toulouse Capitole University is one of the several so-called 'successor' institutions of the University of Toulouse, which was the second university created in France in 1229 after the Sorbonne was founded (around the year 1200). The university originally included four faculties: theology, canon law, civil law and Arts (grammar). The medical school was created in 1257. The University was closed in 1793 as the French Revolution abolished royal universities. At the end of the Second Empire, the first four faculties co-existed, but the most important was the law school, which contained three-quarters of the students and the most renowned teachers. However, the University of Toulouse suffered due to underfunding of French higher education in province. In the 1880s Luis Liard and Ernest Lavisse gave enough autonomy to the faculties so the municipality could help those institutions. In 1902, Marguerite Dilhan, first woman to practice law and to plead before a criminal court in France, obtained her diploma in Law. Yet the Edgar Faure laws divided the University into three establishments: