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Chaired by Maciey Serwański, Albrecht Burkardt (Limoges) is speaking on The origins of the Grand Tour. Travel in the treatises of education of the nobility from the 16th to the early 17th century (English). The Grand Tour as a key element of aristocratic education starts to be quite well-known even in its characteristics as a social practice. Still we know little about its origins. Of course, the practice is elder than its name, which does not mean that it has always been considered as an ideal. At the end of the sixteenth century, François de la Noue already observes that every year hundreds of young French noblemen travel to Italy – practice he doesn’t approve at all.