Question: What University was founded first, University of Missouri or Université Laval?
Context: Guy Laforest is the director of the department of political science at the Université Laval.  He was educated at Université Laval and McGill University.  A former member of the University of Calgary's Political Science department, Laforest is the author of numerous publications on Canadian public policy. Érudit is a Quebec non-profit publishing platform.  Founded in 1998, it publishes research in the humanities and social sciences, as well as select physical and natural science journals.  The organization is a consortium of Université de Montréal, Université Laval, and Université du Québec à Montréal.  Érudit is the largest provider of Canadian French and bilingual research publications.  "90% of content on Érudit is offer in open access.  For some journals, the last 2 or 3 years old publications are restricted by a subscription." Denis Brière is a Canadian forestry professor and academic administrator.  He took office as Université Laval's 25th rector (president) on June 1, 2007.  He ran unsuccessfully for the position in 2002.  He was formerly dean of the faculty of forestry and geomatics at Université Laval in Quebec City, and held that office since 2000.  He has also worked as an executive with James Bay Energy Corporation (Société d'énergie de la Baie-James), a consortium which built a series of hydro-electric dams near James Bay, Kruger Inc., a Canadian pulp and paper company, and Groupe Comact, a manufacturer of wood processing equipment. Coopérative de l'Université Laval (often designated by its commercial diminutive "Zone") is a cooperative involved in the sale of products for the community of Université Laval. The "Pavillon de l'éducation physique et des sports de l'Université Laval" ("Laval University Sports and Physical Education Complex"), usually called PEPS for short, is a sports complex located in Quebec City, Quebec, on the Université Laval campus.  PEPS opened in 1970 and includes an outdoor stadium, an indoor stadium, two indoor swimming pools (aquatic centre), basketball and tennis courts, a fitness centre, and two hockey arenas that can be combined into one for long track speed skating. Sébastien Michaud (born May 7, 1987) started in taekwondo at the age of five, following in his father's and brothers footsteps.  Born in Joliette, Quebec, he currently resides in Quebec City, Quebec where he studies software engineering at Université Laval.  On April 10, 2012, he was nominated as president of the Association des Étudiants en Génie Logiciel of Université Laval. The University of Missouri (also, Mizzou, or MU) is a public land-grant research university located in Columbia, Missouri, U.S.  It was founded in 1839 as the first public institution of higher education west of the Mississippi River.  As the largest university in the state, it enrolled 32,266 students in 2016, offering over 300 degree programs in 20 academic colleges.  It is the flagship campus of the University of Missouri System, which also maintains campuses in Kansas City, Rolla, and St. Louis. Université Laval is a French-language, public research university in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.  The University was founded by royal charter issued by Queen Victoria in 1852, with roots in the founding of the Séminaire de Québec in 1663 by François de Montmorency-Laval, making it the oldest centre of higher education in Canada and the first North American institution to offer higher education in French.  The university, whose main campus was erected from the 1950s onward in the suburban borough Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge, is ranked among the top ten Canadian universities in terms of research funding and holds four Canada Excellence Research Chairs. Alf Schwarz ( 22 May 1935 – 3 August 2015) was a Canadian sociologist noted for his research in Sub-Saharan Africa.  After studies at the Sorbonne (Paris) with Raymond Aron, Pierre Bourdieu, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roger Bastide, Georges Balandier and research assignment at Université de Dakar (Senegal), he began his academic career in 1963 with a faculty position at the Institut de recherches économiques et sociales of Université Lovanium (Kinshasa, RDC).  He joined in 1966 Université Laval (Quebec City) as professor of sociology.  He founded at Laval University the first academic program in African studies in French speaking Canada.  As one of the pioneers of African studies in Canada he was decidedly involved in the creation of the Canadian Association of African Studies and edited for many years the Canadian Journal of African Studies/La Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines.  He retired from Laval University in 1998.  He died in Natal, Brazil in 2015. The Université Laval Faculté de droit (English: Faculty of Law at Laval University ), founded in 1852, is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in North America.  It hosts more than 1,000 students in its curriculum of first, second and third years, with more than 45 lecturers teaching and supervising research projects in most areas of law.  The research activity is particularly intense in the field of human rights and public freedoms in light of legal issues, economic law, environmental law and public law and private international trade.
Answer: University of Missouri