Lycée Louis-le-Grand










































Lycée Louis-le-Grand

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Front entrance of the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, in Paris, one of the most famous lycées providing preparatory classes for grandes écoles

Address

123 rue Saint-Jacques


Paris
75005


France

Coordinates 48°50′53″N 2°20′40″E / 48.848056°N 2.344528°E / 48.848056; 2.344528
Information
Type local public Institution (EPLE)
Established 1 October 1563 (1563-10-01)
Headmaster Jean Bastianelli
[1]
Number of students 1,818 students in 2009
Medium of language French
Language German, English, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Ancient Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Russian, Vietnamese
Website www.louislegrand.org



Exterior of the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, facing the rue St Jacques


The Lycée Louis-le-Grand (French pronunciation: ​[lise lwi lə gʁɑ̃]) is a prestigious secondary school located in Paris. Founded in 1563 by the Jesuits as the Collège de Clermont, it was renamed in King Louis XIV of France's honor after he extended his direct patronage to it in 1682. It offers both a sixth-form college curriculum (as a lycée or high school with 800 pupils), and a post-secondary-level curriculum (classes préparatoires with 900 students), preparing students for entrance to the elite Grandes Écoles for research, such as the École Normale Supérieure, for engineering, such as the École Polytechnique, or for business, such as HEC Paris. Students at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand are called magnoludoviciens.


Louis-le-Grand, founded in 1738, is located in the heart of the Quartier Latin, the traditional student district of Paris. The lycée is situated opposite the Sorbonne and adjacent to the Collège de France. Its southern side opens onto the place du Panthéon, which is the location of its historical rival, the Lycée Henri-IV. These two lycées are home to the oldest preparatory classes in France, which are commonly viewed as the most selective in the country.


Because of this, Louis-le-Grand is considered to play an important role in the education of French elites. Many of its former pupils have become influential scientists, statesmen, diplomats, prelates, intellectuals and writers. "The Jesuit College of Paris", wrote Élie de Beaumont in 1862, "has for a long time been a state nursery, the most fertile in great men". Indeed, former students have included writers Molière, Victor Hugo and Charles Baudelaire, revolutionaries Robespierre, the Marquis de Sade and Camille Desmoulins, as well as seven former presidents of the French Republic and countless other ministers and prime ministers, philosophers such as Voltaire, Diderot, Emile Durkheim, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Cavaillès and Jacques Derrida, scientists Évariste Galois, Henri Poincaré and Laurent Schwartz, and artists Eugène Delacroix, Edgar Degas and Georges Méliès. Renowned foreign students of the lycée include King Nicholas I of Montenegro, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Saint Francis de Sales.


Admission to Louis-Le-Grand is very competitive; the strict selection process is based on academic grades, drawing from middle schools (for entry into high school) and high schools (for entry into the preparatory classes) throughout France. Its educational standards are highly rated and the working conditions are considered optimal due to its demanding recruitment of teachers. Louis-Le-Grand students generally achieve excellent results; topping national rankings for baccalauréat grades in high school and entry into the best grandes écoles in the preparatory classes.




Contents






  • 1 Abu Dhabi Section


  • 2 Notable alumni


  • 3 Courtyards


  • 4 See also


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





Abu Dhabi Section


In September 2008, LLG and the Abu Dhabi Education Council launched the Advanced Math and Science Pilot Class. There is a class designed for girls (20 girls) and another for boys (20 boys). Classes are taught by professors sent from France, and the classes are exceptionally taught in English.


The students who make up the Advanced Math and Science Pilot Class graduate at the end of the 12th grade and are awarded with a certificate of academic recognition by LLG. The final cohort of the program graduated in 2017 marking the end of the LLG-Abu Dhabi program [2]



Notable alumni


Writers, philosophers and social scientists




  • Alexandre Adler

  • Alain-Fournier

  • Auguste Angellier

  • Jean-Henri Azéma

  • Souleymane Bachir Diagne

  • Alain Badiou

  • Charles Barbier de Meynard

  • Maurice Bardèche

  • Charles Baudelaire

  • Émile Beaussire

  • Joseph Bédier

  • Frédéric Beigbeder

  • Alain de Benoist

  • Lucien Bianco

  • Marc Bloch

  • Robert Brasillach

  • Ferdinand Brunetière

  • Pierre Bourdieu

  • Paul Bourget

  • Eugène Burnouf

  • Michel Butor

  • Laurent-Emmanuel Calvet

  • Aimé Césaire

  • Georges Chapouthier

  • Patrice Chéreau

  • Pierre-Robert de Cideville

  • René Clair

  • Paul Claudel

  • Michel Cournot

  • Jean-Loup Dabadie

  • Léon Daudet

  • Régis Debray

  • Jacques Derrida

  • Jérôme Deschamps

  • Denis Diderot

  • Maurice Druon

  • Georges Dumézil

  • Émile Durkheim

  • Claude Esteban

  • Octave Feuillet

  • Maurice de Gandillac

  • Théophile Gautier

  • Georges Goyau

  • Jean Guéhenno

  • Paul Guth

  • Louis Hachette

  • Claude Hagège

  • Jean-Barthélemy Hauréau

  • Victor Hugo

  • Joseph Kessel

  • Henri Laoust

  • Valery Larbaud

  • Lefranc de Pompignan

  • Bernard-Henri Lévy

  • Émile Littré

  • Jean-François Lyotard

  • Quentin Meillassoux

  • Robert Merle

  • Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  • Molière

  • Charles Péguy

  • Bertrand Poirot-Delpech

  • Cardinal de Retz

  • Claude Ribbe

  • Olivier Rolin

  • Jacqueline de Romilly

  • Romain Rolland

  • Marquis de Sade

  • Philippe-Joseph Salazar

  • Jean de Santeul

  • Léopold Sédar Senghor

  • Jean-Paul Sartre

  • Pierre-Henri Simon

  • Joseph Vendryes

  • Jean Wahl

  • Voltaire



Artists and composers




  • Pierre Bonnard

  • Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi

  • Edgar Degas

  • Eugène Delacroix

  • Théodore Géricault

  • Fabien Lévy

  • Georges Méliès

  • Jacques Rigaut

  • Lucien Simon

  • François Tuefferd



Scientists




  • Henri Becquerel

  • Jean Becquerel

  • Eugène Belgrand

  • Jean Bernard

  • Irénée-Jules Bienaymé

  • Alfred Binet

  • Jean-Baptiste Biot

  • Jean Cavaillès

  • Michel Chasles

  • Yves Colin de Verdière

  • Émile Desvaux

  • Olivier Faugeras

  • Évariste Galois

  • Eugène Goblet d'Alviella

  • Jacques Hadamard

  • Félix d'Hérelle

  • Charles Hermite

  • Laurent Lafforgue

  • Gabriel Lamé

  • Louis Leprince-Ringuet

  • Pierre-Louis Lions

  • Arthur Morin

  • Paul Painlevé

  • Charles Pellat

  • Gilles Pisier

  • Henri Poincaré

  • Laurent Schwartz

  • Jean-Claude Sikorav

  • Cédric Villani

  • Étienne Wolff

  • Jean-Christophe Yoccoz



Statesmen and politicians





  • Paul Biya, second President of Cameroon


  • Charles Carroll of Carrollton signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence.


  • Jacques Chirac, 22nd President of the French Republic


  • Michel Debré, first Prime Minister of France


  • Paul Deschanel, 11th President of the French Republic


  • Laurent Fabius, 9th Prime Minister of France


  • Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 20th President of the French Republic


  • Jean Jaurès, first president of the French Socialist Party


  • Alain Juppé, 15th Prime Minister of France


  • Pierre Mendès France, 126th President of the Council of Ministers of France


  • Pierre Messmer, 5th Prime Minister of France


  • Alexandre Millerand, 12th President of the French Republic


  • Milan I of Serbia, King of Serbia


  • Nicholas I of Montenegro, 1st King of Montenegro


  • François Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman


  • Alain Poher, interim President of the French Republic


  • Raymond Poincaré, 10th President of the French Republic


  • Georges Pompidou, 19th President of the French Republic


  • Michel Rocard, 11th Prime Minister of France


  • Léopold Sédar Senghor, first President of Senegal


  • Maximilien de Robespierre, French revolutionary


  • Camille Desmoulins, French revolutionary


  • Božidar Đelić, Serbian Minister of finance in the first post-Milošević government of Zoran Đinđić in 2001-03



Other personalities




  • Philippe Jourdan

  • Donald Adamson

  • François Annat

  • Philippe Boisse

  • Thierry Breton

  • Arthur Chassériau

  • Henry Adrian Churchill


  • André Citroën[3]

  • John Dubois

  • Thomas Elek

  • Gaston Juchet


  • Jacques Lusseyran[4]

  • André Michelin

  • Cardinal de Retz

  • Claude Poullart des Places

  • Saint François de Sales

  • Louis Vallin

  • André Weinfeld



During World War II, student Jacques Lusseyran founded the resistance group Volontaires de la Liberté.[4]Sainte-Beuve refers to Louis-le-Grand as le collège des Jésuites à Paris.[5]



Courtyards


There are several courtyards at the school:






  • Cour Victor Hugo







  • Cour Victor Hugo







  • Cour Molière







  • Cour d'Honneur






See also




  • Secondary education in France

  • Education in France



References




  1. ^ « Du lycée Montaigne à Louis-le-Grand », Sud-Ouest, May 8th, 2012.


  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-02-12. Retrieved 2016-02-25.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link) .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  3. ^ Historique du lycée par Paul Deheuvels, proviseur de 1969 à 1991 Archived 2015-01-22 at the Wayback Machine.. Consulté le 30 mars 2008.


  4. ^ ab Hochard, Cécile. "Journal des Volontaires de la Liberté: Le Tigre". Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation à Besançon. Retrieved 10 March 2014.


  5. ^ Sainte-Beuve, "L'abbé de Bernis" (March 28, 1852), Causeries du lundi, tome 8 (Paris: Garnier Frères, n.d. [1926]), p.3



External links






(These pages are in French)




  • Lycée Louis-le-Grand (official website)


  • http://www.fcpellg.fr/ (parents' association)


  • http://peepllg.com (parents' association)


  • https://www.louislegrand.net (online directory for students, alumni and teachers)










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