Hello, nerd fandom! I've needed to do this for ages, and I've finally got it typed up in translation for those who haven't been able to utilise the resources in French
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Sorry, poor or confusing translation there. Those are the requirements for minimum number of registrations and expected timing of exams. So you would be expected to take third year exam 1 in your 10th term, and the school must schedule that exam in the January term for the benefit of all third year students, but you can postpone that a year. What you probably cannot do is take that exam in August - the faculty is busy finishing up with everyone's actes publiques and will not schedule an exam just for stragglers. The regulations on course sections are phrased so as to expect the possibility of over 1000 students in each year/level (as in, course sections are 500, tops; if there are more than two sections, the third section will be taught by an adjunct [suppléant]). So while there's not a regulation against it, common sense dictates that the exams are offered only once per year and you'll have to wait a full year to re-sit. And you'll be paying registration fees each term for that additional year or two - it spreads out the exam fees, but at a cost.
The diploma is probably able to be put off - it looks like that's the piece one really needs to become a lawyer, and some of that may be provided by Courfeyrac along with the loan of his address. It's the 180 for exams and 120 for the acte publique - 300 francs in that final year - when Marius is later living on 700 for a year that has me really thrown off.
Plus I don't think the timing Victor left us allows Marius much leeway. I think we're just in a magical AU where law school is free. If the boy is refusing to be seen in daylight in a coat that isn't black, it doesn't sound like he's going to class often enough to succeed in these public exams (do you think Marius would turn up for such a public occasion in a green coat? the horror! *g*). So it's probably just a Hugo issue one has to gloss over or make shit up to cover.
Thanks for the answer! There's two things I'm not getting- did you have to be registered continuously after doing the minimum number of terms? Like, could you drop out for half a year and then come back for the term before an exam? Also, when and how did acte publique need to be turned in? Did it have to be in the twelfth term specifically?
Continuous registration: It looks like not. If you failed to register for a term, you couldn't show up to class and be guaranteed of getting in (though if there were more tickets than students, you could still get one after all the actually registered students or if you borrowed someone's ticket). And it was probably advisable to show up for class because this stuff was going to be tested, though it was probably the same stuff every year (but because the absolute specifics are not dictated in the regulations, it's entirely possible, especially if a professor is replaced, that things may come up, say, in the November term that hadn't been discussed in the previous year's November term, and you may end up screwed on that topic, at least. But then, you could always get the notes from someone who actually did show up and take the relevant dictation.) The actual phrasing is "si les aspirans ne sont pas trouvés capables, il leur sera accordé un delai pour en subir de nouveau" - if aspirants are not found capable, they will be accorded a delay in order to submit to it [the exam] again. No stated limit as to number of times, but there's no way they're scheduling too many of these just from an administrative standpoint.
Acte public: It seems to be expected in the twelfth term. You do have to have passed both third year exams before you can submit your acte public. You do have to pay your fee before you turn it in. It appears you must defend it, because the members of the Council of Discipline and Teaching "will have a distinguished place" if they want to attend. Actes done "at the end of the year" are done publicly, same as exams (advertised to the public). The phrasing there sounds like it might be possible to defend at a time other than the scheduled end of the year. So there may be some leeway. My guess is that some students took significant time to work on theirs after finishing their exams and thus end up submitting it after the vacation. It is not forbidden by the regulations, at any rate.
It seems like this could actually be made to work- with some delay, much borrowing of notes from Courfeyrac, and Marius being a more assiduous translator than he is after graduation. (Maybe by the time he gets his license he's completely burned out, thus the laziness on both the translation front and the law-practicing front?)
Though you're probably right that Hugo just underestimated the fees and how they're concentrated in a single year; afaik he studied mathematics (and stopped when his career took off), which as you point out is very different from a degree-granting school.
The diploma is probably able to be put off - it looks like that's the piece one really needs to become a lawyer, and some of that may be provided by Courfeyrac along with the loan of his address. It's the 180 for exams and 120 for the acte publique - 300 francs in that final year - when Marius is later living on 700 for a year that has me really thrown off.
Plus I don't think the timing Victor left us allows Marius much leeway. I think we're just in a magical AU where law school is free. If the boy is refusing to be seen in daylight in a coat that isn't black, it doesn't sound like he's going to class often enough to succeed in these public exams (do you think Marius would turn up for such a public occasion in a green coat? the horror! *g*). So it's probably just a Hugo issue one has to gloss over or make shit up to cover.
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Acte public: It seems to be expected in the twelfth term. You do have to have passed both third year exams before you can submit your acte public. You do have to pay your fee before you turn it in. It appears you must defend it, because the members of the Council of Discipline and Teaching "will have a distinguished place" if they want to attend. Actes done "at the end of the year" are done publicly, same as exams (advertised to the public). The phrasing there sounds like it might be possible to defend at a time other than the scheduled end of the year. So there may be some leeway. My guess is that some students took significant time to work on theirs after finishing their exams and thus end up submitting it after the vacation. It is not forbidden by the regulations, at any rate.
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It seems like this could actually be made to work- with some delay, much borrowing of notes from Courfeyrac, and Marius being a more assiduous translator than he is after graduation. (Maybe by the time he gets his license he's completely burned out, thus the laziness on both the translation front and the law-practicing front?)
Though you're probably right that Hugo just underestimated the fees and how they're concentrated in a single year; afaik he studied mathematics (and stopped when his career took off), which as you point out is very different from a degree-granting school.
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