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84597
Location linked to Alfort Veterinary School
updated: 11/09/2023
Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort - Fragonard Anatomy Museum
94700 Maisons Alfort
France
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Location type
Categories
Environment
City
General presentation
The École Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort (EnvA) has been based in Maisons-Alfort since 1766 and covers 12 hectares. It is a public institution of higher education and research.
The school boasts a variety of settings, from amphitheaters and atypical 19th-century buildings to more recent, modern premises.
Location Condition Type
Renovated
Location History
The EnvA is the oldest veterinary school in the world still on its original site.
The veterinary school was founded in the spring of 1765, four years after the one in Lyon. In March 1764, Claude Bourgelat, lawyer and equerry holding the Académie d'Equitation de Lyon, approached Henri Léonard Jean Baptiste Bertin, ex-intendant de la Génalité de Lyon and Controller General of Finances under Louis XV, to move the school from Lyon to Paris.
Initially located in the north of Paris, in the parish of La Chapelle (now rue Philippe-de-Girard in the 10th arrondissement), the school was too small. The Château d'Alfort property, purchased from the Baron de Bormes, was more suitable for the school due to its location and the size of its grounds. The deed of sale was signed in 1765, and teaching began there in 1766.
Some of the EnvA's buildings are protected as historic monuments.
The veterinary school was founded in the spring of 1765, four years after the one in Lyon. In March 1764, Claude Bourgelat, lawyer and equerry holding the Académie d'Equitation de Lyon, approached Henri Léonard Jean Baptiste Bertin, ex-intendant de la Génalité de Lyon and Controller General of Finances under Louis XV, to move the school from Lyon to Paris.
Initially located in the north of Paris, in the parish of La Chapelle (now rue Philippe-de-Girard in the 10th arrondissement), the school was too small. The Château d'Alfort property, purchased from the Baron de Bormes, was more suitable for the school due to its location and the size of its grounds. The deed of sale was signed in 1765, and teaching began there in 1766.
Some of the EnvA's buildings are protected as historic monuments.
Construction period
XIXth Century,
XVIIIth Century
