the Jesuit college in particular. "The Faculty of Arts had three chairs (History, Hebrew, Greek) until 1704, when a chair of mathematics was created (...). A chair in hydrography has been in place since 1704." "Among the faculties, it was Mathematics in the sixteenth century, and the reshaping of the Mathematics chair by the Marquis de Pommereuil in 1705 that gave new splendour to optics, geometry, astronomy, architecture, military use of alloy chemistry, trigonometry, to ensure the training of good army officers. Mathematics and Science in Douai were made illustrious in the early seventeenth century by the mathematician Charles Malapert, who discovered sunspots – probably before Kirchner, whom he met in Ingolstadt – and in the second half of the century by Anthony Thomas, a Jesuit successor of Verbiest in China, to chair the tribunal of Mathematics in Beijing. This correspondent of the Academy of Sciences has left a major work." In 1679 the first school for artillery officers in France was established in Douai by King Louis XIV. "In the eighteenth century (...) in philosophy, the Douai faculty gave preference to the mathematical logic. Hence the growth in this area of knowledge in the program included (...) physics: mechanics, mathematics, physics itself, optics, perspective, astronomy, cosmography, elements of natural history (chemistry, history, geography, philology). This maths focus was vital for the training of military and naval officers; Douai also possessed a rich library, a museum of ethnology and archeology and a museum of natural sciences (...) Despite the Church distrust regarding sciences, Douai followed closely the developments of science, which stimulated discoveries." It was not until 1750 that the French language supplanted Latin, those this process was not completed until the French Revolution. By the French law of 8 Prairial IV (1795), it was in the neighbouring city of Lille and not in Douai that an Ecole centrale de Lille was established, as a successor of the Douai Faculty of Arts. Douai itself regained a science faculty only in 1808. Faculty of Theology (1562–1793) It is in this faculty that the Douay–Rheims Bible was established. Three two-year course at the Faculty of Theology ensure the successive grades of bachelor, licentiate and doctor. We can have an idea of the quality of the University in what were seeing what some of his professors. Among the most famous, who are many, just to cite Estius (1542–1613), the famous commentator of the