The Lycée Rodin is a French secondary and higher school located at 19, rue Corvisart in Paris, in the

13th arrondissement of Paris The 13th arrondissement of Paris (''XIIIe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as ''treizième''. The arrondissement, called Gobelins, is situated ...

. The school is named after

Auguste Rodin François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor, generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a uniqu ...

, who was born and raised in the area.

History

Originally, the ''lycée'' and ''collège'' sections were annexes of the ''lycée'' Montaigne, known as "''Annexe des Cordelières''" due to the

convent A convent is a community of monks, nuns, religious brothers or, sisters or priests. Alternatively, ''convent'' means the building used by the community. The word is particularly used in the Catholic Church, Lutheran churches, and the Anglican ...

of the

Poor Clares The Poor Clares, officially the Order of Saint Clare ( la, Ordo sanctae Clarae) – originally referred to as the Order of Poor Ladies, and later the Clarisses, the Minoresses, the Franciscan Clarist Order, and the Second Order of Saint Francis ...

located next door. In 1956, classes moved to prefabricated buildings and temporary installations. The current building was built in the 1960s. It resembles a bird spreading its wings. A residential tower is inside. The "History of Arts" option was launched for the first time for L in 1993 and at secondary level in 1994.

Facilities

''Lycée'' Rodin, which also contains a college, can support around students (currently around ). It is a general ''lycée'', and prepares for ES, L and S. Clubs cover socio-educational needs, including for chess, cooking, English-language theatre, photography, yoga and cinema. Sports clubs for AS, ''collège'', and ''lycée'' include badminton, football, badminton, basketball, gymnastics, and climbing. The lycée Rodin has been a pilot for interdisciplinary teaching. Reforms in 2010 removed old-style deterministic teaching, but ''lycée'' Rodin maintains this teaching practice in the form of "workshops". This allows all students to attend lectures on methodical readings of works of art, and for future students to better approach their specialty program (coefficient 6 of the baccalauréat).

Ranking

In 2015, the ''lycée'' was ranked 73rd out of 109 at departemental level on quality of teaching, and 962nd at national level. The ranking was based on the level of baccalauréat results, the proportion of students who obtain a baccalauréat having spent their last two years at the establishment, and "added value" (calculated based on social origin of students, their age, and their national diploma results).

CPGE rankings

The national rankings for preparatory classes to grandes écoles (CPGE) are based on rates of admission to the

grandes écoles Grandes may refer to: * Agustín Muñoz Grandes, Spanish general and politician *Banksia ser. Grandes, a series of plant species native to Australia * Grandes y San Martín, a municipality located in the province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain ...

. In 2016, ''L'Étudiant'' gave the following rankings for 2015 :

Notable alumni

Jean-Paul Huchon Jean-Paul Huchon (; born 29 July 1946) is a French retired civil servant and politician who served as Mayor of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine from 1994 to 2001 and President of the Regional Council of Île-de-France from 1998 until 2015. Biography ...

, politician, President of the regional council of Île-de-France since 1998. *

Cédric Klapisch Cédric Klapisch ( ; born 4 September 1961) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. Life and career Klapisch was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. He is from a Jewish family; his maternal grandparents were deported to ...

, director, actor, and producer. *

Philippe Decouflé Philippe Decouflé (born October 22, 1961) is a French people, French choreographer, dancer, mime artist, and theatre director.

, French dancer and choreographer. * Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, actor, dramatists, and theatre director. *

Jacno Jacno (3 July 1957 in Paris – 6 November 2009) was a French musician. Born as Denis Quilliard, he was a founding member of the first French punk band The Stinky Toys. In the early 1980s, after the group disbanded, he teamed up with former S ...

(Denis Quilliard), French composer and musician, founder of the punk group

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. *

Romain Duris Romain Duris (; born 28 May 1974) is a French actor. He is known for his role in Cédric Klapisch's ''Spanish Apartment'' trilogy, which consists of ''L'Auberge Espagnole'' (2002), '' Russian Dolls'' (2005), and ''Chinese Puzzle'' (2013). He also ...

, French cinema actor *

Santiago Amigorena Santiago Amigorena (; born 15 February 1962 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine screenwriter, film producer, film director and writer. In 2007, he was nominated at the Mar del Plata Film Festival for Best Film with '' A Few Days in Septem ...

, director and writer * Jérémie Mondon, composer and electronic music producer. *

Nathalie Nell Nathalie is a female given name. It is a variant of the name Natalie/ Natalia which is found in many languages, and is especially common in French and English speaking countries. Notable people with the name include: * Nathalie, Italian singer * ...

, actress * Régis Schleicher, member of terrorist organization Action directe. *

Didier François Didier François (born in Brussels on 2 April 1969) is a Belgian musician specialized in nyckelharpa and a sculptor living in Mechelen in Belgium. Studies From 1992 to 1999 François studied violin with Myriam Quersin (successor to Arthur Gr ...

, journalist *

Noémie Lvovsky Noémie Lvovsky (; born 14 December 1964) is a French film director, screenwriter, and actress. Life and career Born in Paris in 1964, Lvovsky is the daughter of Jewish parents who emigrated from Ukraine to flee pogroms. She studied cinema at L ...

, actress and director. *

Lomepal Antoine Valentinelli (born 4 December 1991 in Paris), better known by his stage name Lomepal, is a French rapper and singer from the 13th arrondissement of Paris. He has released five EPs, and three studio albums: ''Flip'', released in June 2017, ...

, rapper, singer, and skater.

Former teachers

Jacques Borel Jacques Borel (17 December 1925 in Paris – 25 September 2002) was a French author best known for his 1965 novel ''L'Adoration'' (translated into English as ''The Bond''), which won the Prix Goncourt The Prix Goncourt (french: Le prix Gonc ...

, writer, Prix Goncourt 1965 for his novel ''L'Adoration'' (Gallimard). *

Marc Ferro Marc Ferro (24 December 1924 – 21 April 2021) was a French historian. Life and career Ferro worked on early twentieth-century European history, specialising in the history of Russia and the USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Unio ...

, historian, teacher of history/geography.''Le Ressentiment dans l’histoire: comprendre notre temps''
par Marc Ferro, éditions Odile Jacob, 2007. * Writer

Leïla Sebbar Leïla Sebbar (born 1941) is a French-Algerian author. Early life Leïla Sebbar was born on 9 November 1941, in Aflou. The daughter of a French mother and an Algerian father, she spent her youth in French Algeria before leaving aged seventeen fo ...

(Leïla Pignon), French teacher.

Bibliography

* M. Deixonne,
Le Lycée Rodin
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Notes and references

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Rodin François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor, generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a uniqu ...