The Lycée Buffon is a
secondary school
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in the
XVe arrondissement of
Paris, bordered by
boulevard Pasteur, the
rue de Vaugirard and the
rue de Staël
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. Its nearest
métro station is
Pasteur. It is named for
Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon.
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is its current proviseur.
It is a "cité scolaire" made up of a
collège, a
lycée
In France, secondary education is in two stages:
* ''Collèges'' () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 15.
* ''Lycées'' () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for children between ...
and scientific
classes préparatoires
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. It has 2 000 students, served by 170 professors, 4 "conseillers principaux d'éducation" and 50 other teaching personnel. It also houses an adult education centre for those taking the
BTS and the Licence des métiers de l'immobilier, and a UPI, the only one in Paris for the visually impaired. The young visually impaired students can then integrate into classical education.
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studied here, and its teachers have included the philosopher and journalist
Maurice Clavel, the theatre critic and historian Gilles Sandié, and the writer and cineaste Jean Pelgri. The school's sundial can be seen on an exterior wall on rue de Vaugirard.
History
* 1885 : The architect
Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer conceived the idea and design for a "lycée de la
rive gauche", to be built on the site of the old cimetière de Vaugirard.
* 1888 : The establishment took the name "lycée Buffon", after the naturalist
the Comte de Buffon, on the centenary of his death.
* 1889 : First entrants, under director M. Adam.
* 1901 : Opening of the first classe préparatoire.
* 1914-1918 : Served as a military hospital.
* 1940-1945 : A
French Resistance centre.
* 8 February 1943:
Circular of the Ministre de l'Éducation nationale sur la rentrée scolaire
September 1947 Five of its students - Jean Arthus, Jacques Baudry, Pierre Benoît, Pierre Grelot and Lucien Legros - were shot by a German firing squad at the stand de tir de Balard
During the Second World War, the Balard shooting range (''stand de tir de Balard'') was the site of Nazi torture and executions. It disappeared with the construction of the Boulevard périphérique de Paris.
Location
It was situated on the trainin ...
in Paris. They had been arrested and condemned to death for Resistance activities in 1942. A commemorative plaque to the event is to be seen in the lycée's entrance hall on and it is also commemorated by the naming of the place des Cinq-Martyrs-du-Lycée-Buffon
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, at the end of boulevard Pasteur.
* 15 June 1944 : Raymond Burgard Raymond Burgard (15 September 1892 in Troyes – 15 June 1944 in Cologne) was a French Resistance worker.
Life
alsace, Alsatian in origin, he graduated in grammar in 1928. In September 1937, he was made literature professor at lycée Buffon in ...
, a professor at the school, beheaded at Cologne by the Nazis
* 1970 : Introduction of co-ed, achieved in September 1978.
* 1988 : Sports classes set up.
* 1995 : Restoration works begun.
* 1997 : New building for specialist teaching opened.
* 1998 : New school canteen and gymnasium opened.
Gallery
Image:Lycée-Buffon-1.jpg, Arcades
Image:Lycée-Buffon-2.jpg, Cour de sport
Image:Lycée-Buffon-3.jpg, Cour d'honneur
Image:Lycée-Buffon-4.jpg, Modern section
Image:Lycée-Buffon-5.jpg, Central courtyard
Image:Lycée-Buffon-6.jpg, Arcade
Image:Lycée-Buffon-7.jpg, One of the eight towers
Image:Lycée-Buffon-8.jpg, Courtyard
External links
Lycée Buffon - official site
Notes
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Educational institutions established in 1885
1885 establishments in France