Lycée Corneille

Lycée Pierre-Corneille
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type of school	high school
place	Rouen
Department	Seine-Maritime
Country	France
Coordinates	49 ° 26 '43 "  N , 1 ° 6' 2"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '43 "  N , 1 ° 6' 2"  E
student	1593
Website	lgcorneille-lyc.spip.ac-rouen.fr

Lycée Corneille, Rouen, 2009

The Lycée Pierre-Corneille in the northern French port city of Rouen is a middle school founded by Jesuits in 1593 , from which many world-famous graduates emerged. The school, which was originally run by the church, was nationalized like many others by the law separating church and state in 1905.

Graduates

Jules Adeline , engraver Louis Anquetin , painter Jean-Jacques Antier , journalist and writer Reynold Arnould , painter Nicolas Bazire Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre , writer Antoine Blondin , writer Emile Blondel scientist Pierre Bourguignon , member of the National Assembly Armand Carrel , publicist Marcel Duchamp , painter and object artist Robert Cavelier de La Salle , explorer Claude Chappe Patrick Chesnais , actor and director Ernest Conseil , biologist Pierre Corneille , writer Thomas Corneille , writer Camille Corot Léon Coutil Alfred Darcel Eugène Delacroix , painter André Derocque Descroizille , scientist Auguste Dorchain Georges Dubosc , journalist Édouard Dujardin , writer Pierre-Louis Dulong scientist Pierre Dumont Marcel Dupré , organist Dr. med. Charles Féré Gustave Flaubert , writer Bernard le Bouyer de Fontenelle , writer

Henri Gadeau de Kerville Dominique Gambier , politician Pierre Giffard , writer Alain Lebaube , writer Maurice Leblanc , writer Jean Lecanuet , politician Maurice Louvrier , painter André Marie , politician Émile Masqueray , anthropologist and ethnologist Guy de Maupassant , writer André Maurois , writer Jean-Luc Mélenchon , politician Paul Marie Mirouel Charles Muller , writer Dr. med. Charles Nicolle Marcel Nicolle Farid Paya , director Thomas Pesquet , astronaut Robert Antoine Pinchon , painter Jean Prévost Jean-Baptiste Prévost Torstein Raaby André Renaudin Jacques Rivette , director Jean Rochefort , actor Léon de Vesly , archaeologist Karin Viard , actress Jacques Villon Francis Yard Étienne Wolff Philippe Zacharie

Web links

Commons : Lycée Corneille  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• School website (French), accessed May 24, 2014