College Name	City	Country	Start Date	End Date	Affiliation	Other Information	Source
Collège de Lombards	Paris	France	1330			founded by Italian students studying in Paris; controlled by Irish Catholics after 1677; moved to rue du Cheval Vert in 1769 and was renamed the Collège des Irlandais;closed and converted to a prison after 1793; later occupied by a French school for children of wealthy French families; operated as a college following Napolean's decree to unite Irish, English, and Scottish colleges; Vincentian Order operated the institution from 1858 until 1870 when it became a hospital during the seige of Paris; reopened under Les Foundations Irlandaises; closed again during WW I; opened again in 1917 until WW II; operated by the Polish Church as a seminary for a time after 1947; an estimated two thousand students earned degrees at the University of Paris during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries	Murphy, Daniel.  A History of Irish Emigrant and Missionary Education.  Dublin:Four Courts Press. 2000.
Irish College	Bordeaux	France	1603			founded through effort of Father Diarmuid McCarthy to meet needs of Munster diocesesin Ireland; students attended lectures at Madeleine University, a Jesuit institution; closed by 1794 and property sold in 1796 for use as a tobacco and saltpetre factory	Murphy, Daniel.  A History of Irish Emigrant and Missionary Education.  Dublin:Four Courts Press. 2000.
Irish College	Toulouse	France				opened soon after college in Bordeaux accommodating overflow of students; most students were from Munster dioceses; known as Collège de Sainte-Anne-le-Royale after 1659 after Anne of Austria agreed to become patroness of the college; closed soon after 1793 and never reopened; buildings demolished in 1857	Murphy, Daniel.  A History of Irish Emigrant and Missionary Education.  Dublin:Four Courts Press. 2000.
Irish College	Rouen	France	1612				Murphy, Daniel.  A History of Irish Emigrant and Missionary Education.  Dublin:Four Courts Press. 2000.
Irish College	Nantes	France	1689			after 1710 acquired status as a seminary and affiliation with with University of Nantes; closed in 1793 following Revolution of 1789	Murphy, Daniel.  A History of Irish Emigrant and Missionary Education.  Dublin:Four Courts Press. 2000.
last update:  11/21/06
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