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4 unusual facts about University of Bordeaux


Ba Maw

In 1924 Ba Maw obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Bordeaux, France.

Hassan II of Morocco

King Hassan was educated at the Imperial College at Rabat, and earned a law degree from the University of Bordeaux.

Helene Hagan

After obtaining a License-es-Lettres from the Faculté des Sciences et des Lettres, University of Bordeaux in France in 1969, she obtained a Master's Degree in French Literature from Stanford University in 1971.

History of the social sciences

Durkheim set up the first European department of sociology at the University of Bordeaux in 1895, publishing his Rules of the Sociological Method.


Doug Beardsley

He has lectured and taught at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France; the University of Bordeaux; the Victoria Indian Cultural Centre, and the University of Victoria (where he taught from 1981 until retirement in 2006).

Nagoum Yamassoum

Yamassoum, who received a doctorate degree in political science from the University of Bordeaux in France, directed President Idriss Déby's campaign for the 1996 presidential election.

Pomerol AOC

For most of the 20th century, the winemaking styles of Pomerol were influenced by University of Bordeaux oenologist Émile Peynaud and his work on the Cabernet Sauvignon grape in the Médoc.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Aire

Aire, on the river Adour, the home of St. Philibert, numbered among its bishops during the second half of the sixteenth century François de Foix, Count of Candale, an illustrious mathematician, who translated Euclid and founded a chair of mathematics at the University of Bordeaux.


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