Chu Van An High School (

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: Trường Trung học phổ thông Quốc gia Chu Văn An), also known as Chu Van An National School or Pomelo School (trường Bưởi, before 1945) one of the three national high schools for the gifted in Vietnam along with Quoc Hoc High School in

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and Le Hong Phong High School in Ho Chi Minh City. It is also one of the three magnet high schools in

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, along with Hanoi-Amsterdam High School and Nguyen Hue High School. Established by the French authorities in 1908 as High School of the Protectorate (French: Lycée du Protectorat), Chu Van An is one of the oldest institutions for

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. Despite the initial intention to train native civil servants to serve the French colonial establishments, Vietnamese students at Bưởi school had many times struggled against colonial doctrine. A lot of Bưởi alumni became renowned political leaders and cultural figures in many areas of Vietnamese society such as Nguyễn Văn Cừ - the fourth general secretary of Communist Party of Vietnam,

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- the first prime minister of

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- former leader of the

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- the first president of Laos. In 1945, Lycée du Protectorat was renamed to Chu Van An High School.

History

On 12 December 1908, the

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Antony Wladislas Klobukowski made the decision to establish ''Collège du Protectorat'' (College of the Protectorate, similar to the secondary school) based on the merger of the Thông ngôn Bờ sông school, the ''Jules Ferry Nam Dinh'' secondary school and the pedagogy class (Cours normal) on Pottier street. In 1931, the school was upgraded to a ''lycée'' (similar to the high school) - ''Lycée du Protectorat'' (The school of Protectorate). Since the school was built on the land of ''Thuy Khuê'' village, ''Kẻ Bưởi'', people often called it ''Bưởi School''. By 1943, the school had to move to the ''Phúc Nhạc'' monastery in Ninh Bình.In 1945, they returned to

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. After Japan overthrew France, on 12 June 1945, the northern king's special envoy

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decided to change the school's name to ''Chu Van An'' - named after the most well-respected teacher in Vietnamese history Chu Văn An , and appointed professor Nguyễn Gia Tường to the principal position. Tường was the first Vietnamese principal of the ''Bưởi - Chu Văn An High School''.

Admission

As one of the three high schools for gifted students in Hanoi (together with Hanoi - Amsterdam High School and Nguyen Hue Specialized High School), Chu Van An High School is highly selective in its admission process. Every year, the school receives over 3000 applications, out of which only 500 to 600 would be admitted. Applicants are required to take an entrance exam conducted by Hanoi Department of Education and Training. This examination usually takes place around mid-June with three subjects - Mathematics, Literature and English, and one additional subject for students who want to be admitted in specialized classes.

Principal

*Dinh Si Dai 1997-2008 *Chu Xuan Dung 2008 - 2015 * Le Mai Anh 2015 - present.

Notable alumni and teachers

;Teachers * Hoàng Xuân Hãn, Minister - Ministry of Education under the regime of

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* Nguyễn Văn Huyên, Minister - Ministry of Education,

for 29 years *

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* Tô Ngọc Vân ;Alumni ;;Politics and military * Lê Hồng Phong, the second general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam * Nguyễn Văn Cừ, the fourth general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam *

, the first prime minister of

and united

* Trịnh Đình Cửu, general secretary of the former Communist Party of Vietnam *

, former vice president and prime minister of South Vietnam * Ngô Gia Tự, (Class of 1922), general secretary of Communist Party of Vietnam in South Vietnam * Dương Đức Hiền, the first general secretary of

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, former leader of the

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, the first president of Laos *

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, Army General and Chief of General Staff of Vietnamese Army * Nguyễn Tường Tam (Nhất Linh), Novelist, Minister - Ministry of Foreign Affairs *

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, Minister - Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism * Nguyễn Phương Nga, Deputy Minister - Ministry of Foreign Affairs * Đặng Vũ Hiệp (Class of 1941), Deputy Minister - Ministry of Defence ;Science & Education * Tôn Thất Tùng, Anatomist, Deputy Minister - Ministry of Health, Director of Vietnam – Germany Hospital or Bệnh viện Việt Đức * Tạ Quang Bửu (Class of 1926), Mathematician, Minister - Ministry of Education *

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(Class of 1932) ;Culture * Nguyễn Đình Thi (Class of 1941), Poet, General Secretary - Vietnam Writers' Association *

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History

Admission

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Notable alumni and teachers

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