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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Cooincidentally, I was just reading about "droit des gens" a few days ago. It seems to be a forerunner of international law, dealing with both relations between states and the basic rights of foreign citizens. Emerich de Vattels' "Le Droit des gens," an eighteenth-century work on the subject, was translated into English as "The Law of Nations," so that may be a better translation than the literal "law of peoples." French wiki suggests that the peoples mentioned refers mainly to states.
Did one have to take all the third year exams in one year, or could Marius have spread out the two exams and the acte publique over several terms to make the fees work? Or done the exams and then delayed paying for the diploma for a while?
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
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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
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Cooincidentally, I was just reading about "droit des gens" a few days ago. It seems to be a forerunner of international law, dealing with both relations between states and the basic rights of foreign citizens. Emerich de Vattels' "Le Droit des gens," an eighteenth-century work on the subject, was translated into English as "The Law of Nations," so that may be a better translation than the literal "law of peoples." French wiki suggests that the peoples mentioned refers mainly to states.
Did one have to take all the third year exams in one year, or could Marius have spread out the two exams and the acte publique over several terms to make the fees work? Or done the exams and then delayed paying for the diploma for a while?
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