Lycée Hoche

Lycée Hoche
type of school	secondary school
address	73 avenue de Saint-Cloud ; 78000 Versailles
place	Versailles
Department	Yvelines
Country	France
Coordinates	48 ° 48 '26 " N , 2 ° 8' 13" E Coordinates: 48 ° 48 '26 " N , 2 ° 8' 13" E
management	Isabelle Bourhis
Website	www.lyc-hoche-versailles.ac-versailles.fr

Lycée Hoche is a secondary school in Versailles ( Yvelines department ).

Before the French Revolution , Maria Leszczyńska , the wife of King Louis XV. , near the Palace of Versailles a nunnery. As early as 1803, this facility was converted into a school, which soon became one of the most important in the country. The Lycée Hoche is now in line with educational institutions such as the Lycée Henri IV , the Lycée Louis-le-Grand , the Lycée Saint-Louis , the Collège Stanislas de Paris and the Lycée privé Sainte-Geneviève .

In honor of General Lazare Hoche (1768–1797), this school was named after him in 1888: "Lycée Hoche". The buildings are listed as Monument Historique .

Known students (selection)

Raymond Aron (1905–1983), philosopher and sociologist
Claude Aveline (1901-1992), writer
Boubakar Ba (1935–2013), mathematician
Michel Brunet (* 1940), paleoanthropologist
Henri Cartan (1904–2008), mathematician
Pierre Clostermann (1921–2006) politician and writer
Barthélemy Prosper enfantin (1796–1864), philosopher
Louis Félix Marie Franchet d'Esperey (1856–1942), Marshal of France
Louis Halphen (1880–1950), historian
Jules Antoine Lissajous (1822-1880), politician
Charles Mangin (1866-1925), General
Philippe Morillon (* 1935), military and politician
Louis Valtat (1869–1952), painter
Boris Vian (1920–1959), musician and writer
Wendelin Werner (* 1968), mathematician

literature

Marie-Louise Mercier-Jouve: Le lycée Hoche de Versailles. 200 ans d'histoire . Dupuy, Paris 2010.

Web links

Commons : Lycée Hoche de Versailles - Collection of images, videos and audio files

See also:

Education system in France