ABSTRACT
Students' General Associations (Associations Generales des Etudiants, AGEs) appeared in France in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Their aim was to represent all university students enrolled in the faculties of a university town and to maintain a policy of political and religious neutrality. Despite the existence of these AGEs, noisy demonstrations and rowdy protests against professors continued, especially in the medical and law schools. They involved politically active students and those who were dissatisfied with their academic situation. The Corporative Association of Medical Students (Corpo) was created in June 1902 for the explicit purpose of defending the interests of medical students enrolled in the faculty. By 1906, the Corporative Association of Medical Students had chosen to support the general practitioners against the faculty. In the winter months of 1907–1908, violence broke out in the Paris faculty of medicine, showing again the alliance between the students from the Corpo and the medical unions.
