Lycée Lakanal is a public secondary school in Sceaux,

Hauts-de-Seine Hauts-de-Seine (; ) is a Departments of France, département in the Île-de-France Regions of France, region, Northern France. It covers Paris's western inner Banlieue, suburbs. It is bordered by Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne to the e ...

, France, in the

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. It was named after

Joseph Lakanal Joseph Lakanal (July 14, 1762 – February 14, 1845) was a French politician, and an original member of the ''Institut de France''. Early career Born in Serres, in present-day Ariège, his name was originally ''Lacanal'', and was altered to ...

, a French politician, and an original member of the Institut de France. The school also offers a

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and highly ranked " classes préparatoires" undergraduate training. Famous French scientists and writers have graduated from lycée Lakanal, such as

Jean Giraudoux Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (; 29 October 1882 – 31 January 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work ...

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and

Frédéric Joliot-Curie Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (; ; 19 March 1900 – 14 August 1958) was a French physicist and husband of Irène Joliot-Curie, with whom he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of Induced radioactivity. T ...

. The school includes a science building, a large park, a

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, and

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for the Pôle Espoir Rugby and the boarding students. Several teachers also live at the school along with boarding students. The main classrooms and the dormitories are in one building, and the school uses

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s in every classroom except the science building's classrooms and the gymnasium.
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Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine Sceaux () is a commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. In 2019, Sceaux had a population of 20,004. A wealthy city Sceaux is famous for the Château de Sceaux, s ...

. Retrieved on September 9, 2016.

History

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, the Minister of Public Instruction in the 1880s, ordered the school built. Construction took place between 1882 and 1885.

Famous former pupils and students

Charles Péguy Charles Pierre Péguy (; 7 January 1873 – 5 September 1914) was a French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism. By 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a believing b ...

(1873–1914), writer *

Paul Hazard Paul Gustave Marie Camille Hazard (; 30 August 1878, in Noordpeene, Nord – 13 April 1944, in Paris), was a French professor and historian of ideas. Biography Hazard was the son of a school teacher. Starting in 1900, he attended the École Norm ...

(1878–1944), historian *

Jules Isaac Jules Isaac (18 November 1877 in Rennes – 6 September 1963 in Aix-en-Provence) was "a well known and highly respected Jewish historian in France with an impressive career in the world of education" by the time World War II began. Internationally, ...

(1877–1963), historian *

Marc Boegner Marc Boegner, commonly known as ''pasteur'' Boegner (; 21 February 1881 – 18 December 1970), was a theologian, pastor, essayist, notable member of the French Resistance and a notable voice in the ecumenical movement. Biography Marc Boegner w ...

(1881–1970), pastor and writer *

(1882–1944), writer *

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(1886–1914), writer *

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(1886–1925), writer *

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(1890–1980), writer *

(1900–1958), Nobel laureate in chemistry, physicist *

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(1901–1999), filmmaker * Karl-Jean Longuet (1904–1981), sculptor *

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(1908–1970), writer and playwright *

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(1909-1950), politician, engineer, military officer from Venezuela *

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(1911–2010), economist, Nobel laureate in economics * Pierre Hervé (1913–1993), deputy * Jean-Toussaint Desanti (1914–2002), philosopher, professor at the École normale supérieure and the Sorbonne *

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(1915–2000), politician * Jacques Durand (1920-2009), engineer and automobile designer * Georges Condominas (1921–), ethnologist *

Jean-Jacques Pauvert Jean-Jacques Pauvert (8 April 1926 – 27 September 2014) was a French publisher, notable for publishing the work of the Marquis de Sade in the early 1950s and as the first publisher of the '' Story of O'' (1954) and the first edition of Kenneth A ...

(1926–), editor *

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(1929–), historian, honorary professor at the Collège de France *

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(1930–), literary theorist * Joël Schmidt, writer * Dimitri Kitsikis (1935-), Geopolitician, Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, Honorary President, The Dimitri Kitsikis Public Foundation. *

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(1940–), fine-art and architectural photographer * Jacques Bouveresse (1940–), philosopher, professor at the Collège de France *

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(1941–2010), scholar of ancient Greek * Guy Hocquenghem (1946–1988), writer *

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(1947–), singer * Rony Brauman (1950–), doctor * Laurent Collet-Billon (1950–), general delegate for armament * Gérard Leclerc (1951–), journalist *

Philippe Laguérie Philippe Laguérie (born 30 September 1952 in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French Traditionalist Catholic priest. He was the first Superior General of the Institute of the Good Shepherd (french: Institut du Bon Pasteur), which upholds the Tridentin ...

(1952–), priest *

Renaud Van Ruymbeke Renaud van Ruymbeke (born 19 August 1952) is an investigative magistrate, well known for specializing in political and financial corruption cases. He investigated the French-Taiwan Frigates Affair, which was related to the Clearstream, and the ...

(1952–), magistrate * Denis Lensel (1954–), journalist and writer * Sauveur Chemouni (1954–) founder of Invision Technologies, California * Gilles Leroy (1958–), writer (Prix Goncourt 2007) *

Cédric Klapisch Cédric Klapisch ( ; born 4 September 1961) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. Life and career Klapisch was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. He is from a Jewish family; his maternal grandparents were deported to ...

(1961–), director *

Christophe Claro Christophe Claro, better known as Claro (born 14 May 1962, in Paris), is a French writer and translator. He studied at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, before working as a publishers' proofreader (1983–1986). He is one of the leading promoters ...

(1962–), writer * Laurent Vachaud (1964–), scriptwriter * Emmanuel Bourdieu (1965–), writer, philosopher and director, son of sociologist and Collège de France professor

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(1967–), writer (Prix Goncourt 2009) * Christophe Ferré, writer * Pierre Courtade (1915–1963), journalist and writer *

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(1969 –), writer * Yann Golanski (1971–), theoretical astrophysicist, mathematician and software pioneer * Laurent Chambon (1972-), sociologist *

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(1976–), politician *

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(1982–), international French rugby player

Lycée Lakanal in popular culture

Lycée Lakanal is the visual basis for the fictional ''Kadic Junior High School''/''Kadic Academy'' from ''

Code Lyoko ''Code Lyoko'' () is a French animated series, animated television series created by Thomas Romain and Tania Palumbo and produced by Antefilms Production (season 1) and MoonScoop Group (seasons 2-4) for France 3 and Canal J, with the participatio ...

''. However, it is not in the same location as Lakanal, being in

Boulogne-Billancourt Boulogne-Billancourt (; often colloquially called simply Boulogne, until 1924 Boulogne-sur-Seine, ) is a wealthy and prestigious Communes of France, commune in the Parisian area, located from its Kilometre zero, centre. It is a Subprefectures in ...

just north of there.

External links

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References

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