Historic note on Henri Piéron's election at the Collège de France (1923)

Abstract

The College de France was the first university-level institution to actually recognize psychology as an academic subject (Ribot in 1888 and Janet in 1902). We present here a historical note on the introduction of Henri Piéron at the Collège de France in 1923. The objective of this paper is to describe, on the basis of available historical documents, the events that led to the creation of the chair of "Physiology of Sensation". We underline the important roles played by Pierre Janet and Jean Nageotte in this creation and we describe the events that took place at the Collège de France.