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The original University of Leuven was founded in 1425 and abolished under French rule in 1797. The Belgian bishops founded the Catholic University in 1834, and it moved to Leuven in 1835. Language disputes split it in 1968, and the Dutch-speaking KU Leuven became an independent institution in 1970, while the French-speaking UCLouvain moved to Wallonia. It is a Catholic, publicly funded research university with campuses across Flanders and Brussels.