The Collège Sévigné is a French
non-denominational
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private school
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.
The school was founded in 1880 by
Mathilde Salomon, becoming the first French non-denominational high school for young women, two months before the vote of the "Camille Sée" law establishing public secondary education for young women, and three years before the opening of the
Lycée Fenelon. The founders, grouped in an association called "Société pour la propagation de l'instruction parmi les femmes", included
Paul Bert
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(1833–1886), former Minister for Education, and a militant for Public Education. The school became co-educational in 1969.
Collège Sévigné was also the first school in
France
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to open a
kindergarten
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, in 1909.
Famous contributors to the education program at the school have been
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,
Gurvitch,
Jankelevitch,
Dumezil,
Braudel
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,
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,
Carcopino,
Merleau-Ponty
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,
Jacqueline de Romilly
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.
The school is only one of three non-denominational private schools in
Paris
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.
The school is located on 28
Rue Pierre-Nicole in the
5th arrondissement.
Collège Sévigné offers classes from kindergarten to the Baccalaureat.
Alumni
*
Germaine Lubin
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*
Irène Joliot-Curie
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and
Ève Curie
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, daughters of
Pierre
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and
Marie Curie
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She was List of female ...
, obtained their ''
baccalaureat'' at the school
*
Françoise Moréchand
*
Sophie Body-Gendrot
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*
Thérèse Bertrand-Fontaine
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References
External links
Official site of Collège Sévigné
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Private schools in France
Educational institutions established in 1880
1880 establishments in France