The Lycée Condorcet () is a

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in Paris, France, located at 8, rue du Havre, in the city's 9th arrondissement. Founded in 1803, it is one of the four oldest high schools in Paris and also one of the most prestigious. Since its inception, various political eras have seen it given a number of different names, but its identity today honors the memory of the

Marquis de Condorcet Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet (; ; 17 September 1743 – 29 March 1794), known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French Philosophy, philosopher, Political economy, political economist, Politics, politician, and m ...

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, Horace Finaly,

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, Marcel Proust, Jean-Luc Marion, Francis Poulenc and Paul Verlaine are some of the students who attended the Lycée Condorcet. Some of the school's famous teachers include Jean Beaufret, Paul Bénichou, Jean-Marie Guyau,

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, and

Stéphane Mallarmé Stéphane Mallarmé ( , ; ; 18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), pen name of Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French Symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools o ...

History

During the greater part of the nineteenth century, the school was the "great Liberal High School" on the right bank with its relatively flexible regime that was chosen by the progressive bourgeoisie for its sons. It is among the few schools in Paris that never had students as boarders: students who were not living with their parents worked, ate and slept in the neighbourhood via a network of "maitres de pension". The mix has gradually emerged in 1924 for preparatory classes for the

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, and 1975 for secondary classes. Over the course of its history the school has changed name several times: * Lycée de la Chaussée d’Antin (1804) * Lycée impérial Bonaparte (1805 – 1814) * Collège royal de Bourbon (July 1815 – February 1848) * Lycée impérial Bonaparte (1848 – 1870) * Lycée Condorcet (22 October 1870 – 1874) * Lycée Fontane (1 May 1874 – 27 January 1883) * Lycée Condorcet (since 1883) Preparatory classes are also very old and were treated to famous teachers such as Jean-Paul Sartre.

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Paul Valéry Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry (; 30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, m ...

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* André Antoine * André Siegfried * Anne Chopinet * Antoine Charma * Aurélien Lugné, dit Lugné-Poe *

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* Bernard Blier * Carlos Raúl Villanueva * Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve * Charles de Montalembert * Christophe Bourseiller *

* Clémence Ramnoux * Daniel Buren * Daniel Halévy * David Kessler * Dominique Lapierre * Edmond de Goncourt * Édouard Brézin * Édouard de Rothschild * Edouard Drumont *

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* Édouard-Alfred Martel * Émile Javal * Émile Taufflieb * Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie * Eric Walter, dit Hector Obalk * Etienne Guyon * Eugène Labiche * Eugène Lefèvre-Pontalis *

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* Fabien Lévy * Félix d'Hérelle * Félix Nadar * Ferdinand Buisson * Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy * Francis Poulenc * Geneviève Rodis-Lewis * Georges Perros * Georges Vésier * Gérard Gachet * Gilbert Cesbron * Gilbert Grandval * Gustave Bloch * Guy de Rothschild *

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* Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec * Henri Hauser * Henri Langlois * Henri Pescarolo * Henri Rabaud * Henri Schneider * Hippolyte Taine * Horace Finaly * Jacques Copeau * Jacques-Émile Blanche * Jacques de Reinach * Jacques Dutronc * Jacques Laurent * Jean Balladur * Jean Béraud *

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* Jean de Baroncelli * Jean Dieudonné * Jean Hugo * Jean Marais * Jean Nohain * Jean-Barthélemy Hauréau * Jean-Claude Delafon * Jean-Claude Trichet * Jean-Dominique Bauby * Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac * Jean-Luc Marion * Jean-Pierre Ceytaire * Joseph Caillaux * Joseph Reinach * Jules de Goncourt * Jules Laforgue * Jules Vallès * Ker-Xavier Roussel * Laurent Broomhead * Léon Brunschvicg * Léon Noël * Louis-François-Clement Breguet * Les trois frères Reinach :
Joseph, Salomon et Théodore * Madeleine Michelis * Marcel Brillouin * Marcel Cohen * Maurice Denis * Maxime Le Forestier * Michel Dubost * Michel Field * Michel Habib-Deloncle * Michel Maurice-Bokanowski * Monique Canto-Sperber * Nathalie Rihouet * Olivier Guichard * Patrice Duhamel * Patrick Devedjian * Paul Leroy-Beaulieu * Paul Sérusier * Philippe BouvardPhilippe Bouvard, « J’ai découvert la lutte des classes dans la cour de récréation », rubrique « Le bloc-notes », in '' Le Figaro Magazine'', semaine du 17 mai 2013, page 138. * Philippe Chabasse * Pierre Bénichou * Pierre Bonnard * Pierre Corvol * Pierre Émile Levasseur * Pierre Lazareff * Pierre Lellouche * Pierre Louis-Dreyfus * Pierre Manent * Pierre Michel * Pierre Moscovici * Pierre-Jean Rémy * Pierre-Oscar Lévy * Régis Messac * René de Obaldia *

René Ghil René François Ghilbert (27 September 1862 – 15 September 1925), known as René Ghil, was a French poet. He was a disciple of Stéphane Mallarmé, a major contributor to the Symbolism (arts), symbolist movement in France, although they later ...

* René Rémond * Robert Aron * Robert de Flers * Robert Proust * Roger Ikor * Roger Martin du Gard * Roger Perelman *

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* Roland Moreno *

Romain Coolus René Max Weill (25 May 1868 – 9 September 1952), who used the pseudonym Romain Coolus, was a French novelist, dramatist and film scriptwriter. Biography Works Theater * 1893 : ''Le Ménage Brésile'' (first play), one-act comedy, at ...

* Romain Goupil * Romain Thomas, dit Lhéritier * Serge Doubrovsky * Thomas Fersen * Tristan Bernard * Victor Schœlcher * William Carlos Williams

References

External links

Official website
{{Authority control Educational institutions established in 1803 Buildings and structures in the 9th arrondissement of Paris 1803 establishments in France