Lycée Condorcet

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Lycée Condorcet
Location
Paris, Île-de-France, France
Information
Type	secondary education
Established	1803
Homepage	Official Website

The Lycée Condorcet is a school founded in 1803 in Paris, France located at 8, rue du Havre in the city's IXe arrondissement. Since its inception, various political eras have seen it given a number of different names, but its identity today honors the memory of the Marquis de Condorcet. The school is part of the secondary education in the French education system. Paul Verlaine, Henri Bergson and Marcel Proust were educated at the Lycée Condorcet, which keeps appearing in published rankings as one of the best lycées in Paris and in France.

Some of the school's famous teachers include Jean Beaufret, Paul Bénichou, Jean-Marie Guyau, Jean-Paul Sartre and Stéphane Mallarmé.

[edit] Notable alumni

Raymond Aron Bảo Đại Tristan Bernard Henri Bergson Pierre Bonnard Jean Boorsch Marcel Brillouin Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart Daniel Buren Patrick Burnel Jean-Dominique Bauby Henri Cartier-Bresson Gilbert Cesbron André Citroën Jean Cocteau Marcel Dassault

Paul Deschanel Jacques Dutronc Louis de Funès Serge Gainsbourg Georges Eugène Haussmann Eugène Labiche Jules Laforgue Maxime Le Forestier Claude Lévi-Strauss Félix Nadar Francis Poulenc Marcel Proust Joseph Reinach

Louis Renault Ker-Xavier Roussel Victor Schoelcher Paul Sérusier Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Paul Valéry Jules Vallès Paul Verlaine Alfred de Vigny Édouard Vuillard Abdoulaye Wade William Carlos Williams Carlos Raúl Villanueva

[edit] External links

• Official website (in French)

Coordinates: 48°52′29.20″N, 2°19′38.36″E