Abstract
The author discusses the evaluation criteria in the recruitment of university professors in France in the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century. A competitive examination called ‘agregation’ was introduced at the end of the eighteenth century. It consisted of standard written and oral tests. Gradually, a programme was developed defining the abilities required of the candidates. This was supposed to lead to a classification of the examinees which could no longer be questioned. The author investigates whether the members of the jury were nevertheless still being influenced by the complexion or social habit of the applicant and whether there are implicit limits to what can be taught, limits which a clever examinee should not overstep.
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