Lycée Montaigne

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The Lycée Montaigne is a famous French public high school. It is located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, near the Jardin du Luxembourg, and was founded in the 1880s.

It offers a junior high school curriculum (a "Collège", 800 pupils), a high school curriculum ("Lycée", 1000 pupils), and a college-leve curriculum, known as "classes préparatoires" (150 pupils). The lycée has science (S), literature (L) and economics (ES) sections. The classes préparatoires are specialized in economics (ECE and ECS).

It also has two international sections, in Portuguese and Polish.

[edit] Alumni

Famous alumni of the Lycée Montaigne include:

• writer Frédéric Beigbeder
• film-maker René Clair
• Michel Debré, former French Prime Minister
• Richard Descoings, Director of the Paris Institute of Political Studies
• Régis Laspalès
• Jean-Marie Lustiger, former archbishop of Paris
• former Primer Minister of Laos Phetsarath
• singer Renaud
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Karl Stoeckel, president of the student union Union nationale lycéenne in 2005-2006.

There is also a Lycée Montaigne in Bordeaux, the website of which is http://montaigne.bordeaux.free.fr (French).

[edit] External links

• http://www.montaigne-paris.fr (French)