Charles Rollin

Rollin was the son of a cutler, and at the age of 22 was made a master in the Collège du Plessis.

In 1694 he was rector of the University of Paris,[2] rendering great service among other things by reviving the study of Greek.

It is said that the same reason prevented his election to the Académie française, though he was a member of the Academie des Inscriptions.

[4] Rollin's literary work dates chiefly from the later years of his life, when he had been forbidden to teach.

A more original and really important work was his Treatise on Education (Traité des Études, Paris, 1726–31), which contains a summary of what was even then a reformed and innovative system of education, discarding the medieval traditions that had lingered in France,[4] emphasizing the study of national history after dropping Latin for vernacular in textbooks.