Agrege
a degree awarded by a French university, based on a competitive examination given by the state and qualifying the recipient for the highest teaching positions in a lycée or for the rank of professor in a school of law or medicine.
Historical Examples
While there he obtained the degree of Licencie-es-Lettres, and this was followed by that of agrege de philosophie in 1881.
Bergson and His Philosophy J. Alexander Gunn
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