Sculpture of Guillaume Budé in the Collège de France

The study and dissemination of Greek paralleled the religious revival that characterised the first decades of the 16th century. Following the example of other cities such as Louvain and Rome, and thanks to the efforts and requests of humanists such as Guillaume Budé, chairs of "lecteurs royaux", scholars and teachers at the same time, were created in France for Greek and Hebrew in 1530, marking th…