Lycée Condorcet

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The Lycée Condorcet is a school founded in 1803 in Paris, France located at 8, rue du Havre in the city's 9th arrondissement. 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. The school is part of the secondary education in the French education system. It is considered as one of the best lycées in Paris and more generally in France.

Some of the school's famous teachers include Jean Beaufret, Paul Bénichou, Jean-Marie Guyau, Jean-Paul Sartre and Stéphane Mallarmé.

[edit] Accessibility

The lycée Condorcet is situated near the gare Saint-Lazare, you can go to it by :

• Métro : station St-Lazare (lines 3, 12, 13 )
• Métro : station Havre-caumartin (lines 3, 9)
• RER A : station Auber
• RER E : station Haussmann Saint-Lazare
• Train : Gare Saint-Lazare

[edit] Notable alumni

Raymond Aron Tristan Bernard Henri Bergson Pierre Bonnard Marcel Brillouin Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart Daniel Buren William Carlos Williams Henri Cartier-Bresson Gilbert Cesbron André Citroën Jean Cocteau Marcel Dassault

Paul Deschanel Jacques Dutronc Maxime Le Forestier Serge Gainsbourg Georges Eugène Haussmann Eugène Labiche Jules Laforgue Claude Lévi-Strauss Félix Nadar Francis Poulenc Marcel Proust Joseph Reinach Marcel Dassault

Louis Renault Ker-Xavier Roussel Victor Schoelcher Paul Sérusier Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Paul Valéry Jules Vallès Paul Verlaine Alfred de Vigny Édouard Vuillard Louis de Funès Bao Dai Abdoulaye Wade

For more names, see the french article...

[edit] External link

• Official website (in French)