Original university The University of Reims was established in 1548, after the Cardinal of Lorraine met with
Pope Paul III. The 'Collège des Bons-Enfants'
Catholic school thus became a university, teaching the arts, theology, law and medicine. The university was closed in 1793 during the
French Revolution, and reemerged in the 1960s.
Modern university The Faculty of Science (1961), the Literary University College (1964), the University College of Law and Economics (1966), Reims University Technology Institute (1966), the Faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy (1967), the National School of Dental Surgery (1970) are the institutions from which the University of Reims was formed in 1971. The creation of an IUT in
Troyes (1973), an Institute of Higher Technical Education (1985) and an IUT department (1995) in
Charleville-Mezieres, the development of a delocalized office of the Faculties of Law, Economics and Humanities of
Reims (1991) and the opening of an IUT department in
Châlons-en-Champagne (1993) all became part of the university and in 1982, it was renamed the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne.
List of presidents • Michel Devèze (historian),
1971–1976 • Jean Le Men (pharmacist),
1976–1977 • Lucien Bernard (physicist),
1977–1982 • André Laberrigue (physicist),
1982–1987 • Jean Raymond (anglicist),
1987–1992 • Claude Severin (physician and dentist),
1992–1997 • Jacques Meyer (mathematician),
1997–2002 • Mary Gerard (physicist),
2002–2007 • Richard Vistelle (chemist),
2007–2012 • Gilles Baillat (director of the IUFMs),
2012–2016 • Guillaume Gelle,
2016–present ==Organisation==