The Open court . ang on the establishment besides presenting it with the 260 THE OPEN COURT. library, maps and engravings which the statesman had left. April29, 1893, the Foundation was formally recognized as an institutionof public utility. On the first day of the following May its doorswere opened to its first beneficiaries. According to a note dated April 6, 1882, and signed by and Mile. Dosne, Madame Thiers intended that youngmen already distinguished by their learning and intelligence shouldbe admitted into this school to complete their education and to per-. MADEMOISELLE DOSNE.
The Open court . ang on the establishment besides presenting it with the 260 THE OPEN COURT. library, maps and engravings which the statesman had left. April29, 1893, the Foundation was formally recognized as an institutionof public utility. On the first day of the following May its doorswere opened to its first beneficiaries. According to a note dated April 6, 1882, and signed by and Mile. Dosne, Madame Thiers intended that youngmen already distinguished by their learning and intelligence shouldbe admitted into this school to complete their education and to per-. MADEMOISELLE DOSNE. feet themselves in the study of science, philosophy and history, towhich M. Thiers had devoted himself with so nuicli zeal wheneverhis consecration to the interests of his country allowed him sufficientleisure. The manner in which the beneficiaries are chosen satisfies theseconditions as we shall see. We find among their number philos-ophers, historians, geographers, jurists, philologists, chemists, lite-rary men and mathematicians. Catholics, Protestants and Israelitesmeet each other there, and it seems that the petty political passions THE THIERS FOUNDATION. 261
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