Lycée Buffon
The Lycée Buffon is a
Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon. Jean-Claude Durand
is its current proviseur.
It is a "cité scolaire" made up of a
classes préparatoires. It has 2 000 students,[1] served by 170 professors, 4 "conseillers principaux d'éducation" and 50 other teaching personnel. It also houses an adult education centre for those taking the BTS
and the Licence des métiers de l'immobilier, and a UPI, the only one in Paris for the visually impaired. The young visually impaired students can then integrate into classical education.
The religious scholar Odon Vallet studied here, and its teachers have included the philosopher and journalist Maurice Clavel, the theatre critic and historian Gilles Sandié, and the writer and cineaste Jean Pelgri. The school's sundial can be seen on an exterior wall on rue de Vaugirard.
History
- 1885 : The architect rive gauche", to be built on the site of the old cimetière de Vaugirard.
- 1888 : The establishment took the name "lycée Buffon", after the naturalist the Comte de Buffon, on the centenary of his death.
- 1889 : First entrants, under director M. Adam.
- 1901 : Opening of the first classe préparatoire.
- 1914-1918 : Served as a military hospital.
- 1940-1945 : A French Resistance centre.
- 8 February 1943:place des Cinq-Martyrs-du-Lycée-Buffon, at the end of boulevard Pasteur.
- 15 June 1944 : Raymond Burgard, a professor at the school, beheaded at Cologne by the Nazis
- 1970 : Introduction of co-ed, achieved in September 1978.
- 1988 : Sports classes set up.
- 1995 : Restoration works begun.
- 1997 : New building for specialist teaching opened.
- 1998 : New school canteen and gymnasium opened.
Gallery
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Arcades -
Cour de sport -
Cour d'honneur -
Modern section -
Central courtyard -
Arcade -
One of the eight towers -
Courtyard
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Notes
48°50′35″N 2°18′41″E / 48.84306°N 2.31139°E
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