five Chinese students: Paul Liu, Maur Cao, Thomas Liu, Philippe-Stanislas Kang, and Ignace-Xavier Lan, who had come from China via Macau together with Jesuit Father Foureau. After 1762 With the Suppression of the Society of Jesus in France, the Jesuits were ordered to cease their teaching and leave the college on . The establishment was immediately nationalized and renamed . Teachers from the nearby replaced the Jesuit fathers as faculty. This change triggered a broader reform of the University of Paris. The scholarship students () of twenty-six smaller colleges of the University of Paris, known as the , were invited to follow classes at Louis-le-Grand. By 1764, these students also boarded at Louis-le-Grand. By then, the effectively ceased autonomous activity, after which their property were gradually sold. Louis-le-Grand thus became the center of the university, even though ten other survived until 1792. The nearby buildings of the , one of the , were purchased by the monarchy in 1770 and repurposed as headquarters () of the University of Paris. Meanwhile, by 1764 the former faculty of the Collège de Beauvais took over teaching at Louis-le-Grand from those of the . Between then and the French Revolution, there were about 190 every year at Louis-le-Grand, and a smaller number of whose families paid for their boarding. As a broader consequence of the Jesuits' termination, the French state in 1766 initiated the examination to raise the standards of teaching in secondary education. Louis-le-Grand aspired to a leading position in supplying future . Its ambitions failed to materialize, however, as only nine of its succeeded in the exams between 1766 and 1792, out of a total of 206 successful candidates during that period. During and after the French Revolution, the college was renamed several times in response to France's changing politics: in January 1793, in 1797, in July 1798, in 1803, in 1805, in 1814, in 1815, in 1831, in 1848, in 1849, in 1853, again in 1870, and finally again in 1873. It has kept that name ever since. Throughout the troubled 1790s, it was the only Parisian educational institution that remained continuously open, as it had been during the 1590s siege of Paris. Part of its premises, however, were used as barracks for soldiers, then as political prison and workshops. In 1796, three more opened in Paris, respectively in the former Abbey of Saint Genevieve (, later Lycée Henri-IV), the Professed