The foundation of the School of Pharmacy in Paris

The Parisian School of Pharmacy originates from the Jardin des apothicaires created by the Parisian apothecaries community located rue de l' Arbalète to the suburb St Marcel in Paris in the early 17th century. It expenced on this site and was successively named the Collège de pharmacie (1777), the Société libre des pharmaciends de Paris and the Ecole gratuite de pharmacie (1796). The 11 April 1803 law as well as the government decrees of the same year organised the official training education of pharmacists in France with the creation of three schools in Montpellier, Paris and Strasbourg. The first director of the Parisian School was the well-known Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin. The development of this School imposed a new location in Paris, avenue de l' Observatoire, in 1882. The School of Pharmacy became Faculté de pharmacie in 1920.