The University of Mons-Hainaut was established in 1965 from the
Institut commercial des industriels du Hainaut, which had been founded in 1899 by
Raoul Warocqué. In the university library, which was established in 1797, there were more than 715,000 items, including 450 manuscripts, one of which was from the 10th century, and 140
incunables, of which one was a
Gutenberg Bible. ==Notable alumni==