Lycée Carnot
48°53′02″N 2°18′27″E / 48.88389°N 2.30750°E
The Lycée Carnot (French pronunciation:
The Lycée has served as a filming location for many films, and often hosts fashion shows during Paris fashion week. The heart of the building is a large hall measuring 80 by 30 meters covered with a glass roof mounted on a metal frame on a project by Gustave Eiffel. The Lycée Carnot has a middle school section and a high school section. There are also preparatory classes for grandes écoles, in economic and commercial sections as well as in sciences.
Notable alumni
- Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, musicians and members of Daft Punk. The two met at the lycée.[2]
- Maurice Bloch, anthropologist[3]
- Bernard Buffet, French painter of Expressionism and a member of the anti-abstract art group
- Jacques Chirac, former President of France[4]
- Minister of Foreign Affairs and Prime Minister under the presidency of General de Gaulle
- May 1968 events in France[5]
- Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher in the post-structural tradition, friend and colleague of Michel Foucault.
- Serge Haroche, French physicist, Nobel laureate
- Thierry Jacquillat, former president of Paris-île de France Capital Economique and former vice president and Director of Pernod Ricard
- Dimitri Kitsikis, Geopolitician, Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, Honorary President, The Dimitri Kitsikis Public Foundation.
- Pascal Lamy, former president of the World Trade Organization from 2005 to 2013.
- Henri Laborit was, famous surgeon, neurobiologist, writer and philosopher.
- Guy Môquet, French Communist militant[6]
- Crimson Rivers, Godzilla, The Da Vinci Code, Mission: Impossible, The Pink Panther, Ronin, Wasabi, The Big Blue, Hector and the Search for Happiness and Léon: The Professional.
- Joseph Rovan, French philosopher and politician[7]
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former French finance minister and former (2007–2011) former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
References
- ^ The Journals of Father Alexander Schmemann 1973-1983, translated by Juliana Schmemann, (Crestood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2000) 251.
- ^ "Electron libre #13" (in French). radiofrance.fr. 2007-12-03. Retrieved 2007-12-15.
- ISBN 9781412999632.
- ^ Craig R. Whitney (2007-12-15). "Man in the News; The Conservative 'Bulldozer': Jacques Rene Chirac". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-12-15.
- ^ 'Guy Debord,' Andy Merrifield, Reaktion Books Ltd, London: 2005. p. 18
- ^ Charles Bremner (2007-10-23). "President Nicolas Sarkozy faces resistance over tribute to hostage shot by Nazis". The Times. Retrieved 2007-12-15.
- ^ "Joseph Rovan". The Daily Telegraph. 2004-08-10. Retrieved 2007-12-15.[dead link]
External links
- (in French) Lycée Carnot - Paris website