Abstract

This essay describes the decade émigré Alexandre-Marie Quesnay de Beaurepaire spent in the New World. He arrived in 1777, hoping for a distinguished military career. He left in 1787, having developed a vision of higher education approved by the French Royal Academies of Sciences and of Painting and Sculpture, and subsequently praised by historians as the precursor of the modern university system.

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