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primary and secondary school, located in Jamhour, in the

of the

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. The co-educational

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school was founded by the

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Overview

The school campus is set in a pine forest and includes Petit Collège, Grand collège, a church, and a sports complex. Before the late 1950s, the campus was located on

Rue Huvelin Rue Huvelin ( ar, شارع هوفلين), is a street located east of Beirut Central District in the neighborhood of Achrafieh. The street is named after Paul Huvelin, a French legal historian who founded the law school of the Université Saint-Jose ...

in Beirut. Notre-Dame offers French and Lebanese baccalaureate programs with specializations in mathematics (Sciences générales), biology (Sciences de la vie), economics, social sciences (ES), and humanities (H). Language classes include French, Arabic, English, and Spanish/Italian (optional). Jamhour was founded in Ghazir and is still run by Jesuit priests. It welcomes students from "douzième" (equivalent of kindergarten) to "Terminale" (12th grade). It is affiliated with Collège Saint-Grégoire in Achrafieh, Beirut, and has close ties and a common history with the

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(USJ).

Notable alumni

* Alain Bejjani, CEO of

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, President of the Lebanese Republic *

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, President of the Lebanese Republic *

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, Former CEO of Nissan-Renault * Philippe Jabre, founder and CIO of Jabre Capital Partners, S.A. * Joseph Philippe Karam, a modernist architect * Adnan Kassar, chairman of

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, MP in the Lebanese Parlement * Pierre Lequiller, MP in the French Assemblée Nationale *

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, musician, playwright, thinker. * Joe Saddi, Senior Partner and Chairman of

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, music composer

References

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Overview

Notable alumni

See also

References

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