Lycée Charlemagne

Lycée Charlemagne
type of school	high school
address	14 rue Charlemagne 75004 Paris
place	Paris
Department	Paris
Country	France
Coordinates	48 ° 51 '16 "  N , 2 ° 21' 39"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '16 "  N , 2 ° 21' 39"  E
Website	www.lycee-charlemagne.fr

The Lycée Charlemagne is one of the great schools in Paris . His address is Rue Charlemagne 14, in the middle of the Marais , in the 4th arrondissement .

Napoleon I made it a Lycée in 1804, before the building belonged to the Jesuits .

The Lycée Charlemagne works together with the Collège Charlemagne (formerly Petit lycée ), which is located on Rue Charlemagne across from the Lycée. Like other prestigious Parisian grammar schools, it offers preparatory classes that prepare for the entrance exams to elite universities.

Former teachers

Auguste Angelier (1848–1911), English scholar and literary critic Jean Bayet (1892–1969), Latinist Louis Benaerts (1868–1941), historian Elie Bloncourt (1896–1978) politician Jean-Louis Burnouf (1775-1844), Latinist Eugène Charles Catalan (1814-1894), mathematician Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889), chemist Paul Couderc (1899-1981), astronomer François Fabié (1846–1928), writer Louis-Benjamin Francoeur (1773–1849), mathematician

Louis Galloudec (1864–1937), politician Pierre George (1909-2006), geographer Joseph Lakanal (1762–1845), later at the chair for ancient languages ​​at what was then the École centrale . Alexandre Langlois (1788-1854), translator Gustave Lanson (1857-1934), historian Théodore Lefebvre (1889–1943), geographer Édouard Lucas (1842-1891), mathematician Gustave Rivet (1848–1936), politician and writer Eugène Rouché (1832–1910), mathematician Amédée Thalamas (1867–1953), geographer

Former students

Claude Allègre (* 1937), geochemist and politician Mathieu Amalric (born 1965), actor Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), writer Léon Blum (1872–1950), politician Francis Blanche (1921–1974), actor Georges Darien (1862–1921), writer Gustave Doré (1832–1883), painter and draftsman Émile Flourens (1841–1920), politician Franz Josef Furtwängler (1894–1965), trade unionist Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830-1889), historian Théophile Gautier (1811–1872), poet François-Victor Hugo (1828–1873), son of Victor Hugo, Shakespeare translator Joseph Joffre (1852–1931), Marshal of France

Lionel Jospin (* 1937), politician Roger Lagadec (* 1946), electrical engineer Jules Lagneau (1851-1894), philosopher Pierre Messmer (1916–2007), politician Jules Michelet (1798–1874), historian Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855), writer Pierre Rosenberg (* 1936), director of the Louvre and member of the Académie française Jean Richepin (1849–1926), writer, member of the Académie française Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804–1869), literary critic Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796–1832), physicist Auguste Ambroise Tardieu (1818–1879), medical examiner Auguste Vacquerie (1819–1895), journalist and writer René Worms (1869–1926), sociologist and philosopher

Web links

Commons : Lycée Charlemagne (Paris)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Lycée Charlemagne (French)
• History of the Lycée Charlemagne (French)