Lycée Henri-IV
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The Lycée Henri-IV (sometimes abbreviated HIV and pronounced H4) is a public high school located in Paris. It is widely regarded as one of the most demanding in France.
It offers both a high-school curriculum (a lycée, with a student body of around one thousand), and a university-level curriculum (known as classes préparatoires, or prépas, also with about a thousand pupils), preparing students for entrance to the elite Grandes Écoles. At the yearly competitive entrance examinations for the various scientific, humanities, and business Grandes Écoles, students from the Lycée Henri-IV's classes préparatoires regularly have the highest rate of admission.
Henri-IV is located in the nationally-historic buildings of the former Sainte Geneviève abbey. After the French revolution, it was transformed into a lycée, the first one in France. It is located in the heart of the Quartier Latin (Latin quarter) on the left bank of the river Seine, near the Panthéon, the church Saint Etienne du Mont, and the rue Mouffetard.
The Quartier Latin is the traditional academic neighborhood of Paris. Rich in history, architecture, and culture, this area encompasses the oldest and the most prestigious educational establishments in France: (the École Normale Supérieure, the Sorbonne, the Collège de France, the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, etc.)
With a history of employing eminent teachers and graduating equally eminent students, the Lycée Henri-IV has a well-deserved reputation as one of the most excellent secondary schools in the world.
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[edit] Famous alumni
- Guy Béart, singer
- Jean-Marie Benoist, anthropologist
- Léon Blum, French prime minister (of the Front populaire party)
- Jean-Louis Bory, novelist and film critic
- Jacques de Bourbon Busset, co-founder of CERN, member of the Académie française
- Patrick Bruel, composer (who refers to the lycée in his song, «Place des grands hommes»)
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer
- Camille Dalmais, singer
- Emmanuel Chain, journalist and television producer
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter
- Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix, leading painter of the Romantic school
- Gilles Deleuze, philosopher
- Léon-Paul Fargue, poet
- Michel Foucault, philosopher
- Paul Fournel, writer and bicyclist
- Georges Friedmann, sociologist
- Albert Gardes, artist
- André Gide, writer
- Julien Gracq, writer
- Georges-Eugène Haussmann, baron, préfet, and city planner
- Alfred Jarry, writer (of Ubu Roi, for example)
- Pierre Loti, sailor and writer
- Jacques Maritain, philosopher
- Guy de Maupassant, writer
- Prosper Mérimée, writer (of Carmen, for example)
- Alain Minc, writer, reporter, engineer and businessman
- Alfred de Musset, playwright
- Paul Nizan, philosopher and writer
- Jean d'Ormesson, novelist
- Mazarine Pingeot, novelist and journalist
- Plantu, cartoonist for Le Monde
- Éric Rohmer, New Wave director, writer and actor
- Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher
- Maurice Schumann, fellow of the Académie française, minister, and senator
- Jorge Semprun, Spanish Minister for culture
- Bertrand Tavernier, actor, director, producer
- Albert Thibaudet, essayist and critic
- Pierre Vidal-Naquet, historian
- Alfred de Vigny, poet
- André Vingt-Trois, current Archbishop of Paris
- Simone Weil, philosopher
- the sons of the king Louis-Philippe, among whom was the Duke of Aumale, governor-general of Algeria, member of parliament, member of the Académie française, the Académie des Beaux Arts and the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques
[edit] Famous teachers
- André Alba, historian
- Henri Bergson, philosopher
- Etiènne Borne, philosopher
- Jean-Louis Bory, novelist and film critic
- Émile Auguste Chartier, philosopher
- Georges Cuvier, naturalist and zoologist
- Laurent Michard, biographer and literary historian
- Georges Pompidou, French president
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- (French) Official website
