Lycée Louis-le-Grand

Lycée Louis-le-Grand   (Secondary school)
Headquarters	Paris, France
Type	Private

The Lycée Louis-le-Grand 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 (Paris), for engineering, such as the École Polytechnique, or for business, such as HEC 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 Maximilien Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, as well as seven former presidents of the French Republic and countless other ministers and prime ministers, philosophers such as Voltaire, the Marquis de Sade, Denis 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.

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

Person	Born	Died	Nationality	Summary	Description
Jacques Chirac	29 November 1932		France	Politician Fraudster
Laurent Fabius	20 August 1946		France	Politician	French politician who attended the 1994 and 2016 Bilderbergs
Pierre Mendès France	11 January 1907	18 October 1982	France	Politician	Prime Minister of France in the 1950s, Bilderberg 1968, Le Siecle
Fabrice Fries	10 March 1960		France	Businessperson	French CEO of Agence France-Presse.
Bernard-Henri Lévy	5 November 1948		France	Propagandist	A French 'philosopher' who has created an intellectual alibi for every US/NATO intervention since the 1980s. Lévy is also a militant supporter and apologist for Zionism and the Israeli state.
Frédéric Oudéa	3 July 1963		France	Financier	French financier
Georges Pompidou	5 July 1911	2 April 1974	France	Politician	President of France from 1969 until his death in 1974 from a rare form of cancer. 1960 Bilderberg
Jean-Paul Sartre	21 June 1905	15 April 1980		Philosopher
Louis-Charles Viossat	22 March 1964		France	Civil servant Big pharma/Lobbyist	Revolving door Big Pharma lobbyist who was responsible for French Covid vaccine rollout. Replaced in January 2021 because he was perceived as too slow.