• Between 1295 and 1563, Chambéry was the capital of
Savoy. The
University of Turin was founded in 1404, and Chambéry was the home of an
école préparatoire, a school preparing students to go there. But there was no university in Chambéry in this period, and
Turin took over from Chambéry as Savoy's capital in 1563. • The
annexation of Savoy by France after the unification of Italy meant that Chambéry had an
académie between 1860 and 1920, but not a university. • During the movement creating new universities in the 1960s, a Savoy
Collège Scientifique Universitaire (CSU) was created, then a
Collège Littéraire Universitaire (CLU) in 1963. These colleges were merged, creating the
Centre Universitaire de Savoie (CUS), at Chambéry, on 9 May 1969. In 1973, Annecy's technical and business college, the
Institut Universitaire Technologique (IUT), was founded, and from 27 June 1979, the CUS was officially classed as a university. It was later renamed the
Université de Savoie and then in May 2014
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