Editing Cahors (section)

==Education==

From 1331 to 1751 the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Cahors]] managed the {{Interlanguage link|University of Cahors|fr|Université de Cahors}}.

Pope John XXII granted a charter on 7 June 1331.<ref>{{cite book|author=M.J. Baudel|title=Histoire de l'Université de Cahors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PtUHhZzjsMgC|year=1876|publisher=Layton|language=la, fr|pages=7–14}}</ref>

The university had three colleges at Cahors: Pélegry (1358), Rodez (1371), and San Michel (1473).<ref>{{cite book|author=Hastings Rashdall|title=The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages: pt. 1. Italy. Spain. France. Germany. Scotland, etc|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rIZKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA180|year=1895|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford|pages=179–180}}</ref> Fénelon studied at this institution, which, in 1751, was dissolved as a separate institution and annexed to the [[University of Toulouse]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Patric Ferté|title=L'Université de Cahors au XVIIIe &#91;i.e. dix-huitième&#93; siècle: 1700-1751 le coma universitaire au siècle des Lumières|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UCq7AAAAIAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Verf.|location=Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe|language=fr}}</ref> The institution had faculties covering theology, law, medicine, arts and literature.

The university dissolved in 1751 and faculties annexed into the University of Toulouse.