Collège Saint-Michel (German: Kollegium St. Michael) is a

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located in

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, Switzerland. It was established in 1582 by the Jesuit order as a boys' school.

Personalities

Rectors

* Pierre Michel (1582–1888) * Jean-Baptiste Jaccoud (1888–1924) * Hubert Savoy (1924–1939) * Romain Pittet (1939–1952) * Mgr Edouard Cantin (1952–1971) * Abbé André Bise (1971–1983) * Michel Corpataux (1983–1989) * Jean Baeriswyl (1989–1996) * Nicolas Renevey (1996–2004) * Jacques de Coulon (2004–2008) * Matthias Wider (since 2008)

Notable teachers

* Jean-Pierre Dorand * Fabrice Hadjadj * Félicien Morel * Claude Schorderet * Denis Clerc * Michel Bugnon-Mordant

Notable alumni

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(1934–2009), writer * Michel Dénériaz (1928–1999), radio host and game show * Joseph Deiss (1946– ), former federal councilor * Antoine Dousse (1924–2006), bookseller, teacher and writer * Claude Frochaux (1935), writer, publisher * Emile Gardaz (1931–2007), poet and writer * Félix Glutz, vaudois politician * François Gross (1931–2015), journalist * Pierre Hemmer (1950–2013), one of the Internet pioneers in Switzerland *

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) * Count

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(1924–2014), journalist * Vladimir Serbinenko, Switzerland's first gold medallist at the

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* Father Joseph-Marie Timon-David (1835–1842), founder of

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* Ernst Wilczek (1862–1948), botanist

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