Lycée Louis-le-Grand

Louis- le -Grand is the name of a famous elite school in the Latin Quarter in Paris (123 rue Saint -Jacques, the 5th arrondissement ), which Lycée and preparatory classes for the grandes écoles of skills competitions.

The traditional school emerged from the 1564 founded as fellows home of the Jesuit Collège de Clermont and was formerly known as the Jesuit College of Paris. She was from 1595 to 1618 and in 1762 temporarily closed and was renamed several times.

Name

The original Collège deduced his name Collège de Clermont by Guillaume Duprat († October 23, 1560 ), bishop of Clermont, whose foundations the Jesuits to establish this facility enabled, which was later designated as follows:

  • Collège Louis- le -Grand ( 1674) out of respect and thanks for visiting, King Louis XIV abstattete school,
  • Collège de l' Egalite (1792 ) and Collège Prytanée (1794 ) during the French Revolution,
  • Collège de Paris ( 1800) under the consulate,
  • Lycée Impérial (1805-1815) at the time of the First Empire,
  • Collège royal de Louis- le -Grand ( 1815) during the restoration of the Bourbon rule,
  • Lycée Descartes ( 1848).

Your present name the school since 1849.

History

Already in 1540 the Jesuits had founded the Collège, let their pupils - in the absence of own house - but accommodate the Collège du Trésorier, or 1542 from the Collège des Lombard, to Guillaume Duprat them suitable 1550 House ( rue de la Harpe ) and 1560 by will gave to a sum which in 1562 allowed them to acquire the spacious former residence of the bishops of Langres in the rue Saint -Jacques. There they opened in 1564, the actual Collège de Clermont, whose Kapellenbau 1582 King Henry III. the foundation stone was laid.

The assassination, the former student Jean Châtel (1575-1594) on December 27, 1594 King Henry IV committed, gave rise to the temporary expulsion of the Jesuits from France and the closing of the Collège de Clermont 1595-1618. This year returned to the monks, took lessons on and commissioned in 1628 again the construction of their school, which they later integrated the neighboring buildings of the Collège de Marmoutierss ( 1641) and the Collège du Mans ( 1682).

As a result of renewed expulsion of the Jesuits in 1762 but closed again, took over the school, which was placed in 1763 under a board of directors, the board of the Archbishop of Reims, in the latter year, all fellows of the 26 closed so-called petits collège on.

The renovated from 1820 to 1822 school complex adjacent former building of the College of Cholet in 1822 were affiliated. Part of the old building was built in the years 1885 to 1893 by the architect Charles Lecoeur by a new building. The facade of the courtyard are under monument protection.

The Lycée today

The " Secondaire " of the Lycée, according to the German secondary school grades 10 to 12, visit currently (2007) around 850 students, the classes Préparatoires who are preparing to join the Grand Ecoles, around 950, of which 15 % in industry, 60 % in the scientific and 25% in the literary branch. The Lycée is known for its high success rate in the Grandes Ecoles. About one tenth of the students are foreigners from 40 countries (especially in the " Secondaire Européenne "). The school is open to everyone and is free. But there is a rigorous selection process. The school is also a boarding school connected with 339 places ( boys and girls) for students who are Préparatoires in the classes. The students are called " magnoludoviciens " means. Since 1995, ran extensive renovations.

Currently (2007) it is directed by Joël Vallat, the former director of the French School ( Lycée français) in New York.

List of known students and teachers

Known students:

Writer and philosopher

  • René Castel
  • Aimé Césaire
  • Paul Claudel
  • René Clair
  • Prosper Jolyot Crébillon
  • Alfred Auguste Cuvillier -Fleury
  • Léon Daudet
  • Régis Debray
  • Nicolas Félix Deltour
  • Jacques Derrida
  • Denis Diderot
  • Maurice Druon
  • Émile Durkheim
  • Bernard- Henri Lévy
  • André Lichtenberger
  • Emile Littre
  • Robert Merle
  • Maurice Merleau -Ponty
  • Molière
  • Charles Peguy
  • Bertrand Poirot - Delpech
  • Romain Rolland
  • Marquis de Sade
  • Jean -Paul Sartre
  • Voltaire

Painters and sculptors

Scientist

  • Henri Becquerel
  • Jean -Baptiste Biot
  • Jean Bernard
  • Michel Chasles
  • Alfred Croiset
  • Louis -Marie Stanislas Fréron
  • Évariste Galois
  • Jacques Hadamard
  • Claude Hagège
  • Charles Hermite
  • Gabriel Lamé
  • Laurent Lafforgue
  • Vincent Lafforgue
  • Louis Massignon
  • Louis Leprince Ringuet -
  • Urbain Le Verrier
  • Pierre -Louis Lions
  • Arthur Morin
  • Paul Painlevé
  • Henri Poincaré
  • Marie- Antoinette Tonnelat
  • Jean -Christophe Yoccoz

Politician

  • Alain Poher
  • Raymond Poincaré
  • Georges Pompidou
  • Maximilien de Robespierre
  • Augustin Robespierre
  • Michel Rocard
  • Leopold Sedar Senghor
  • Jean Tiberi
  • Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, baron de l' Alder
  • Abel -François Villemain
  • Maxime Weygand

Other

  • André Citroën
  • Claude de la Colombière
  • Raoul Diagne, national football team
  • Louis -Marie Stanislas Fréron
  • Louis Fronsac (notary at the Grand Châtelet)
  • Casimir Gaillardin ( historian )
  • Jules Girard, literary historian
  • Cardinal Retz
  • Jacques Isorni, Attorney at Law
  • Marquis de Lafayette
  • André Michelin
  • Francis de Sales (student 1578-1588 )

Teacher

Teacher at LLG were, inter alia:

  • Henri Abraham
  • Michel Alexandre
  • Ferdinand Alquié
  • Jules Barni
  • Amédée Beaujean
  • André BELLESSORT
  • Denis Bérardier
  • Casimir Bonjour
  • Émile Borel
  • Jean -Claude Bouquet
  • Hubert Bourgin
  • Auguste Burdeau
  • René Castel
  • Bernard Chambaz
  • Marc- Antoine Charpentier
  • Charles -Louis Clerisseau
  • Jean -Philibert Damiron
  • Darcos
  • Constant Dubos
  • Louis Gallouédec
  • Mathieu Auguste Geffroy, historian
  • Marcel -Jules -Marie Guéhenno (Jean Guéhenno )
  • Charles Antoine Gidel (Rector from 1878)
  • Jean Gaston Darboux
  • Eugène Despois
  • Léon Feugère
  • André Lagarde
  • Louis Lavelle
  • Henri Léon Lebesgue
  • Michel Le Tellier
  • Lucien Poincaré
  • Chrétien -Siméon Le Prévost d' Iray
  • Hippolyte Rigault
  • Raoul Rochette
  • Romain Rolland
  • Eugène Rosseeuw Saint- Hilaire
  • Paul Tuffrau
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