Lycée Lakanal is a public secondary school in Sceaux,

Hauts-de-Seine Hauts-de-Seine (; ) is a département in the Île-de-France region, Northern France. It covers Paris's western inner suburbs. It is bordered by Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne to the east, Val-d'Oise to the north, Yvelines to the we ...

, France, in the

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. It was named after Joseph Lakanal, a French politician, and an original member of the Institut de France. The school also offers a

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and highly ranked "

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" undergraduate training. Famous French scientists and writers have graduated from lycée Lakanal, such as

Jean Giraudoux Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (; 29 October 1882 – 31 January 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work ...

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and

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. The school includes a

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, a large park, a track, and

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for the Pôle Espoir Rugby and the boarding students. Several teachers also live at the school along with boarding students. The main classrooms and the dormitories are in one building, and the school uses

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s in every classroom except the science building's classrooms and the gymnasium.
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Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine Sceaux () is a commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. In 2019, Sceaux had a population of 20,004. A wealthy city Sceaux is famous for the Château de Sceaux ...

. Retrieved on September 9, 2016.

History

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, the Minister of Public Instruction in the 1880s, ordered the school built. Construction took place between 1882 and 1885.

Famous former pupils and students

Charles Péguy Charles Pierre Péguy (; 7 January 1873 – 5 September 1914) was a French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism. By 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a believing b ...

(1873–1914), writer * Paul Hazard (1878–1944), historian *

Jules Isaac Jules Isaac (18 November 1877 in Rennes – 6 September 1963 in Aix-en-Provence) was "a well known and highly respected Jewish historian in France with an impressive career in the world of education" by the time World War II began. Internationally, ...

(1877–1963), historian *

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(1881–1970), pastor and writer *

(1882–1944), writer *

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(1886–1914), writer *

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(1886–1925), writer *

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(1890–1980), writer *

(1900–1958), Nobel laureate in chemistry, physicist *

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(1901–1999), filmmaker * Karl-Jean Longuet (1904–1981), sculptor *

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(1908–1970), writer and playwright * Carlos Delgado Chalbaud (1909-1950), politician, engineer, military officer from Venezuela *

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(1911–2010), economist, Nobel laureate in economics * Pierre Hervé (1913–1993), deputy *

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(1914–2002), philosopher, professor at the École normale supérieure and the Sorbonne *

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(1915–2000), politician *

Jacques Durand Jacques Durand (28 June 1920 – 16 August 2009) was a French engineer, model builder and automobile designer. He is primarily known for designing several sports cars, which were built in small volumes in France beginning in the 1950s and c ...

(1920-2009), engineer and automobile designer *

Georges Condominas Georges Louis Condominas (29 June 1921 – 17 July 2011) was a French cultural anthropologist, known for his field studies of the Mnong people of Vietnam. Biography Condominas was born in 1921 in Haiphong (former French Indochina, Vietnam today) ...

(1921–), ethnologist * Jean-Jacques Pauvert (1926–), editor * Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929–), historian, honorary professor at the Collège de France *

Gérard Genette Gérard Genette (7 June 1930 – 11 May 2018) was a French literary theorist, associated in particular with the structuralist movement and such figures as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, from whom he adapted the concept of '' bricolag ...

(1930–), literary theorist * Joël Schmidt, writer * Dimitri Kitsikis (1935-), Geopolitician, Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, Honorary President, The Dimitri Kitsikis Public Foundation. * James Austin (1940–), fine-art and architectural photographer *

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(1940–), philosopher, professor at the Collège de France * Colin François Lloyd Austin (1941–2010), scholar of ancient Greek *

Guy Hocquenghem Guy Hocquenghem (; 10 December 1946 – 28 August 1988) was a French writer, philosopher, and queer theorist. Biography Hocquenghem was born in the suburbs of Paris and was educated at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux and the Ecole Normale Supéri ...

(1946–1988), writer *

Julien Clerc Paul Alain Leclerc (born 4 October 1947), known by his stage name Julien Clerc (), is a French singer-songwriter. Life Born in Paris, Clerc grew up listening to classical music in his father Paul Leclerc's home, while his mother Évelyne Merlot ...

(1947–), singer *

Rony Brauman Rony Brauman (born June 19, 1950, in Jerusalem) is a French physician specializing in tropical diseases. He was one of the early members of ''Médecins sans frontières'' (Doctors without Borders), and was its president from 1982 to 1994. As pr ...

(1950–), doctor * Laurent Collet-Billon (1950–), general delegate for armament * Gérard Leclerc (1951–), journalist * Philippe Laguérie (1952–), priest * Renaud Van Ruymbeke (1952–), magistrate * Denis Lensel (1954–), journalist and writer * Sauveur Chemouni (1954–) founder of Invision Technologies, California *

Gilles Leroy Gilles Leroy (born 28 December 1958 in Bagneux, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French writer. He studied at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, which appears in his 1996 novel ''Les Maîtres du monde'' as the "Lycée Ducasse". His novel ''Alabama song'' won th ...

(1958–), writer (Prix Goncourt 2007) *

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(1961–), director * Christophe Claro (1962–), writer * Laurent Vachaud (1964–), scriptwriter * Emmanuel Bourdieu (1965–), writer, philosopher and director, son of sociologist and Collège de France professor

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* Marie NDiaye (1967–), writer (Prix Goncourt 2009) * Christophe Ferré, writer * Pierre Courtade (1915–1963), journalist and writer * Muriel Barbery (1969 –), writer *

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(1971–), theoretical astrophysicist, mathematician and software pioneer *

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(1972-), sociologist * Guillaume Peltier (1976–), politician * Grégory Lamboley (1982–), international French rugby player

Lycée Lakanal in popular culture

Lycée Lakanal is the visual basis for the fictional ''Kadic Junior High School''/''Kadic Academy'' from ''

Code Lyoko ''Code Lyoko'' () is a French animated television series created by Thomas Romain and Tania Palumbo and produced by Antefilms Production (season 1) and MoonScoop Group (seasons 2-4) for France 3 and Canal J, with the participation of Conseil Gén ...

''. However, it is not in the same location as Lakanal, being in

Boulogne-Billancourt Boulogne-Billancourt (; often colloquially called simply Boulogne, until 1924 Boulogne-sur-Seine, ) is a wealthy and prestigious commune in the Parisian area, located from its centre. It is a subprefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine department an ...

just north of there.

External links

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References

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