Collège Sévigné
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| Established | 1880 |
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| Type | Private |
| President | Yves Guerin |
| Undergraduates | 1,400 |
| Location | Paris, 5ieme, France |
| Etablissement d'enseignement privé laïque sous contrat d'association | |
The Collège Sévigné is a French non-denominational private school.
The school was founded in 1880 by Mathilde Salomon, becoming the first French non-demoninational highschool for girls, 2 months before the vote of the "Camille Sée" law establishing public secondary education for young women, and 3 years before the opening of the Lycée Fenelon. The founders, grouped in an association called "Societe pour la propagation de l'instruction parmi les femmes", included Paul Bert (1833-1886), former Minister for Education, and a militant of Public Education. The school became co-ed in 1969.
Collège Sévigné was also the first school in France to open a kindergarten, in 1909.
Famous contributors to the education program at the school have been Alain, Gurevitch, Jankelevitch, Dumezil, Braudel, Mounier, Carcopino, Merleau-Ponty, Jacqueline de Romilly.
The 1935 Nobel prize for Chemistry Irène Joliot-Curie, daughter of Marie Curie, was one of the alumni of the school where she studied from 1912 to 1914 to obtain her Baccalaureat.
The school is only one of three non-denominational private schools in Paris.
The school is located 28, rue Pierre-Nicole, Paris V.
Collège Sévigné offers classes from kindergarten to the Baccalaureat.
