 On February 24, 1428, the "Conseil Général" of Geneva decided to establish a college in Rive after the tram station molars (a neighborhood of Geneva), near the Franciscan convent.In it was taught the liberal arts and university studies, which Genevan people had previously had to go abroad to study.After the Protestant Reformation, school was made obligatory and free for poor people on May 21, 1536.