The Lycée Georges Clemenceau, , usually called Lycée Clemenceau is a public secondary school located in Nantes,

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, formerly known as the Lycée of Nantes. Inaugurated in 1808, it is the oldest secondary school of the town of Nantes and in the department of Loire-Atlantique. It offers both a sixth-form college curriculum (as a lycée), and a post-secondary-level curriculum (classes préparatoires). It is located next to a botanic garden (Jardin des plantes). Train and tram stations offer an easy access to the school for students. Furthermore there is a lovely chapel inside. The Emperor

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visited the Lycée on 9 August 1808. The school was rebuilt from 1886 to 1892 to a design by the architects Antoine Demoget and Léon Lenoir. Many famous people studied in Clemenceau, like the writer Jules Verne and the politician

Georges Clemenceau Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (, also , ; 28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A key figure of the Independent Radicals, he was a ...

who give his name to the school.

Famous Alumni

Writers

* Henri Anger (1907–1989), novelist * Rene Guy Cadou (1920-1951, poet) * Alphonse de Châteaubriant (1877-1951) * Edmond Coarer-Kalondan (1909-1981) *

Tristan Corbière Tristan Corbière (18 July 1845 – 1 March 1875), born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean (now part of Morlaix) in Brittany, where he lived most of his life before dying of tuberculosis at the age of 29 ...

(1845-1865, poet) * Marc Elder (1884-1933) *

Julien Gracq Julien Gracq (; 27 July 1910 – 22 December 2007; born Louis Poirier in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, in the French ''département'' of Maine-et-Loire) was a French writer. He wrote novels, critiques, a play, and poetry. His literary works were no ...

(1910-2007) * Morvan Lebesque (1911-1970, also journalist) * Jean Sarment (1897-1976, also actor) *

Marcel Schwob Mayer André Marcel Schwob, known as Marcel Schwob (23 August 1867 – 26 February 1905), was a French symbolist writer best known for his short stories and his literary influence on authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Alfonso Reyes, Roberto Bol ...

(1867-1905) * Jules Verne (1828-1905) * Jacques Vaché (1895-1919) *

Jules Vallès Jules Vallès (11 June 1832 – 14 February 1885) was a French journalist, author, and left-wing political activist. Early life Vallès was born in Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire. His father was a supervisor of studies (''pion''), later a teac ...

(1832-1885)

Politicians

* Yed Angoran, minister of the industry from Ivory Coast *

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, senator and Secretary of State * Louis Mathurin Babin-Chevaye, industrial and deputy * Jean Babin-Chevaye, industrial and senator *

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, lawyer,

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, president of the Constitutional Council * Mehdi Bazargan, 46th Prime Minister of Iran (1979) * Paul Bellamy, deputy-mayor of Nantes *

Aristide Briand Aristide Pierre Henri Briand (; 28 March 18627 March 1932) was a French statesman who served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic. He is mainly remembered for his focus on international issues and reconciliat ...

, minister, president of the Council (prime minister) and

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, journalist, senator and president of the Council (prime minister) * Henri Lopès, prime minister of the Republic of the Congo * André Morice, minister, parliamentary and mayor of Nantes * Abdollah Riazi, 16th Speaker of the Parliament of Iran (1963–1978) * Jacques Sourdille, medicine professor and Secretary of State.

Painters

* Maurice Chabas *

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Jules Grandjouan Jules is the French form of the Latin "Julius" (e.g. Jules César, the French name for Julius Caesar). It is the given name of: People with the name * Jules Aarons (1921–2008), American space physicist and photographer *Jules Abadie (1876–19 ...

(engaged dessinator) * Emile Laboureur * Amédée Dubois de La Patellière *

Maxime Maufra Maxime Maufra (17 May 1861 – 23 May 1918) was a French landscape and marine painter, etcher and lithographer. Life Maufra first began painting at 18. He was encouraged to do so by two artists from Nantes such as the brothers Charles Ledu ...

Jean Metzinger Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (; 24 June 1883 – 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism. His earliest works, from 1 ...

James Tissot Jacques Joseph Tissot (; 15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902), anglicized as James Tissot (), was a French painter and illustrator. He was a successful painter of fashionable, modern scenes and society life in Paris before moving to London in 1871 ...

Musicians, dancers, cineastes and actors

* The brothers

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Georges Bellec Georges may refer to: Places *Georges River, New South Wales, Australia *Georges Quay (Dublin) *Georges Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania Other uses * Georges (name) * ''Georges'' (novel), a novel by Alexandre Dumas * "Georges" (song), a 197 ...

(singers from the group les Frères Jacques) * Yvan Dautin (singer) * Jacques Garnier (dancer and choreograph) * Jacques Grand-Jouan (cineaste) * Thierry Fortineau (actor) *

Paul Ladmirault Paul Émile Ladmirault (8 December 1877 – 30 October 1944) was a French composer and music critic whose music expressed his devotion to Brittany. Claude Debussy wrote that his work possessed a "fine dreamy musicality", commenting on its cha ...

(compositor) * Yves Lecoq (actor) *

Jacques Legras Jacques Legras (16 October 1924 – 15 March 2006) was a French actor. Selected filmography * ''Branquignol'' (1949) - Le domestique qui crie trop fort * ''La patronne'' (1950) - Un témoin * ''Bernard and the Lion'' (1951) - Paul * '' Lov ...

(actor) * Olivier Messiaen *

François Tusques François Tusques (born January 27, 1938 in Paris, France) is a French jazz pianist. Tusques played a significant role in the emergence of a community of free jazz musicians in France. Discography * ''Free Jazz'', with Bernard Vitet, Beb Guér ...

(compositor) * François Verret (choreograph)

Industrial and engineer

* Louis Amieux * Ernest Cassegrain * Thomas Dobrée (shipowner) * Eugène Dubigeon (engineer) * Léon Jost (industrial) * Louis Lefèvre-Utile (industrial) * Alphonse Lotz-Brissonneau (engineer) * Arsène Saupiquet * Constant Say * Georges Evano (architect) * Pol Abraham (architect)

Doctors

* Félix Guyon (surgeon) * Gustave Rappin (doctor)

Military

* General Boulanger * General Buat * General Huntziger * General Lamoricière

References

External links

official site
of the lycée Clemenceau {{DEFAULTSORT:Lycee Georges Clemenceau Educational institutions established in 1808 1808 establishments in France Lycées in Nantes