Lycée Henri-IV

Paris, France

The Lycée Henri IV is one of the most famous lycées in Paris, France, located on the Rue Clovis No. 23 in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, near the Latin Quarter. Nearby are the late Gothic parish church of Saint- Étienne -du -Mont, and the Pantheon.

The Lycée Henri IV is one of the most challenging and prestigious high schools in France. It is known for its excellent results in the Baccalauréat, the French High School, and in the Concours, the selection process for the Grandes Ecoles, the French elite high schools, especially in the humanities disciplines.

Some school buildings are national monuments, such as the remains of the Abbey of Sainte-Geneviève in the 12th or 13th century, including the former bell tower of the abbey church, the Tour Clovis ( see photo), the former refectory (now the chapel ) or the Cabinet of Médailles (Medal room). In 1996, the remains were discovered from the era of Carolingian renovation work.

History

In the beginning was the Abbey of Sainte-Geneviève, a Benedictine monastery, founded in 502 by the Frankish King Clovis I in honor of the Apostles Peter and Paul. Since 512 was located there, the body of St Genevieve of Paris. After the monastery was looted several times by the Normans, there was a mocking parody of " St. Genevieve " and was taken over by secular canons, which were referred to in the subsequent period as génovéfains, " profane ". In the 12th century the monastery of Suger of Saint -Denis, the abbot of the Abbey of Saint- Denis was reformed and manned by canons of St. Victor. He established a scriptorium and library. In the following years, however, the discipline slackened again. 1619 transferred King Louis XIII. Abbey Cardinal de la Rochefoucauld as abbot in commendam, who founded the Congregation of de France as a congregation of Augustinian canons in France.

During the French Revolution the monastery was dissolved and declared national property. However, the large library ( 58,000 printed volumes and 2,000 manuscripts ) escaped the destruction. The abbey was, was later renamed the Lycée Napoléon to an educational institution that called itself first after the nearby Pantheon École Centrale du Panthéon. Thus, the Lycée Henri IV is the first French school, which was known as the Lycée. In the epoch of the restoration, the school was renamed the Lycée Corneille and finally the name Lycée Henri IV sat through. It was a school for the upper classes, which was attended by the sons of King Louis Philippe and of the nobility in the subsequent period.

The school today

The Lycée Henri IV includes a Collège ( four years of middle school ), the actual Lycée ( three -year upper ) and the classes préparatoires ( preparatory classes ) for the application at the Grands Ecoles and has a total of about 2500 students.

The Collège visit about 600 students, mainly from the south of Paris. Because of its reputation and its privileged location in a residential area near the Sorbonne students most often children of university professors come from "better" conditions. However, there are also students from other districts, especially if they choose Russian as their first foreign language, because this option is offered only by very few schools.

In contrast to the board, the students of the Lycée be selected according to their performance at school and come from schools all over Paris and the surrounding area. Approximately 10 to 12 percent of the students come from poor neighborhoods declared. Due to the strict requirements for admission, the school achieved above-average success rates in the baccalaureate, which are made as well as all students.

Also the selection for about two dozen classes préparatoires undertaken strictly on performance. Since the preparatory classes at the Lycée Henri IV are among the most prestigious in France to students from around the country to apply for admission. On a national level, the graduates of the school to achieve at the Concours for the Grandes Écoles regularly with the highest success rates. Within Paris is a traditional rivalry with the also very successful Lycée Louis- le -Grand.

Famous former students

  • Désiré André (1840-1918), mathematician
  • Guy Béart ( born 1930 ), a cabaret singer, composer and actor
  • Léon Blum (1872-1950), politician
  • Jacques de Bourbon Busset (1912-2001), writer and politician
  • Boutroux Émile (1845-1921), philosopher
  • Patrick Bruel ( born 1959 ), singer and actor, he mentioned the Lycée in his song Place des grands hommes ("place of the known great men " )
  • Esther Duflo (born 1972 ), economist
  • Léon- Paul Fargue (1876-1947), writer
  • Michel Foucault (1926-1984), philosopher
  • Georges Friedmann (1902-1977) sociologist
  • André Gide (1869-1951), writer
  • Julien Gracq (1910-2007), writer
  • Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (* 1948), German linguist and professor at Stanford
  • Alfred Jarry (1873-1907), writer
  • Linda Lê ( b. 1963 ), writer
  • Stéphane Lissner ( born 1953 ), theater and opera director
  • Jacques Maritain (1882-1973), philosopher
  • Paul Massot (1800-1881), physician and politician
  • Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870), writer
  • Alain Minc (* 1949), writer and political consultant
  • Alfred de Musset (1810-1857), writer
  • Paul Nizan (1905-1940), writer
  • Jean Orcel (1896-1978), mineralogist
  • Mazarine Pingeot (* 1974), writer and journalist, illegitimate daughter of former French president François Mitterrand
  • Jean Plantureux called Plantu, ( born 1951 ), cartoonist
  • Henri Regnault (1843-1871), painter
  • Jean -Paul Sartre (1905-1980), philosopher
  • Volker Schlöndorff (* 1939), German film director
  • Jean -Claude Schmitt ( born 1946 ), French historian
  • Jorge Semprún (1923-2011), writer, former Spanish Minister of Culture and member of the Académie Goncourt
  • Bertrand Tavernier ( born 1941 ), film director
  • Albert Thibaudet (1874-1936), writer
  • André Vingt -Trois ( born 1942 ), Archbishop of Paris
  • Simone Weil (1909-1943), philosopher

Former famous teacher

  • Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau
  • Jules Haime
  • Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
  • Émile Chartier, mostly in France Alain (1868-1951)
  • Georges Pompidou (1911-1974)
  • Albert Soboul (1914-1982)
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