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unusual facts about University of Lille


Charles Eugène Bertrand

In 1874 he obtained his doctorate in sciences, later being appointed professor of botany at the University of Lille (1878).


André Stil

Born in Hergnies, Nord, a small town in the coal-mining region of northern France, Stil was educated at the University of Lille, earning a degree in philosophy.

François Frenkiel

François Frenkiel, received his undergraduate education in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Ghent, Belgium, and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Lille in France where he studied under the direction of Kampé de Fériet.


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Alexis-Armand Charost

Charost served as papal legate to the centennial celebrations in honor of Cardinal Charles Lavigerie in Algiers on August 25, 1925, to the fiftieth anniversary of the Catholic University of Lille on March 14, 1927, and to the celebrations in honor of St. Thérèse de Lisieux in Lisieux on September 15, 1929.