The Lycée du Parc is a public
secondary school
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located in the sixth ''
arrondissement
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Europe
France
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'' of
Lyon
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,
France
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. Its name comes from the
Parc de la Tête d'Or
The Parc de la Tête d'or (English: "Park of the Golden Head") is a large urban park in Lyon, France, with an area of approximately . Located in the northern part of the 6th arrondissement, it features the Jardin botanique de Lyon, as well as a ...
, one of Europe's largest urban parks, which is situated nearby.
It provides a
''lycée''-level education and also offers
''classes préparatoires'', or ''prépas'', preparing students for entrance to the
elite
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Grandes Écoles Grandes may refer to:
*Agustín Muñoz Grandes
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such as
École Polytechnique
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savoi ...
,
CentraleSupélec,
École des Mines de Paris
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,
ESSEC Business School
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,
ESCP Business School
ESCP Business School (french: École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris) is a French business school and ''grande école'' founded in Paris and based across Europe with campuses in Paris, Berlin, London, Madrid, Turin, and Warsaw. It is consis ...
, and
HEC Paris
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.
The school was built on the site of the former Lunette des Charpennes, part of the
Ceintures de Lyon
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The belts comprised two defensive barriers that included forts, lune ...
system of fortifications built in the 19th century.
Famous alumni
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Louis Armand
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*
Louis Althusser
Louis Pierre Althusser (, ; ; 16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy.
Althusser ...
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Nathalie Arthaud
Nathalie Yvonne Thérèse Arthaud (; born 23 February 1970) is a French secondary school (lycée) economics teacher and politician. Since 2008, she has served as the spokesperson for the Lutte Ouvrière (Workers' Struggle), a communist party, an ...
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Louis Bancel
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Christophe Barbier
Christophe Barbier (born 25 January 1967) is a French political journalist and columnist who was chief editor of ''L'Express'' from 2006 to 2016.
Career
Born in Sallanches, Haute-Savoie, Barbier attended the Lycée du Parc in Lyon. He graduated ...
*
Nicolas Baverez
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* Nicolas (given name)
Mononym
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* Nicolas (footballer, born 2000), Brazilian footballer
Surname Nicolas
* Dafydd Nicolas (c.1705–17 ...
*
René Belletto
René Belletto (born 11 September 1945 in Lyon) is a French writer, and winner of the Prix Femina
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*
Georges Bidault
Georges-Augustin Bidault (; 5 October 189927 January 1983) was a French politician. During World War II, he was active in the French Resistance. After the war, he served as foreign minister and prime minister on several occasions. He joined the ...
*
Claude Bloch
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Pierre Boutang
Pierre Boutang (20 September 1916 – 27 June 1998) was a French philosopher, poet and translator. He was also a political journalist, associated with the currents of Maurrasianism and Royalism.
Biography
Boutang was an alumnus of the '' Ecol ...
*
Bertrand Collomb
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Gérard Collomb
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*
Bruno Cotte Bruno Cotte (born 1945) is a French judge of the International Criminal Court. Prior to his appointment to the ICC Cotte was a member of the Cour de Cassation, France's supreme court of appeal. He had been Director for Criminal Affairs and Pardons ...
*
Antoine Culioli
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Jean-Marie Domenach
Jean-Marie Domenach (; 13 February 1922 – 5 July 1997) was a French writer and intellectual. He was noted as a left-wing and Catholic thinker.
Domenach was born in Lyon, where he studied at the Lycée du Parc. In 1957, he took over the editor ...
*
Jacques Friedel
Jacques Friedel ForMemRS (; 11 February 1921 – 27 August 2014) was a French physicist and material scientist.
Education
Friedel attended the Cours Hattemer, a private school. He studied at the École Polytechnique from 1944 to 1946, and the ...
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André Glucksmann
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Jean Guitton
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Jules Horowitz
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Vladimir Jankélévitch
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Biography
Jankélévitch was the son of Russian Jewish parents, who had emigrated to France.
In 1922 he started studying philosophy at the Éco ...
*
Jacques Julliard
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Life Early years
Jacques Julliard was born on 4 March 1933 in Brénod, Ain.
His father and grandf ...
*
Marc Lambron
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Bibliography
* ''Les Menteurs''
* ''L'Impromptu de Madrid'', (Flammarion, 1989)
* ''L'Œil du silence'' (1993)
* ''194 ...
*
Benoît Mandelbrot
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*
Emmanuel Mounier
Emmanuel Mounier (; ; 1 April 1905 – 22 March 1950) was a French philosopher, theologian, teacher and essayist.
Biography
Mounier was the guiding spirit in the French personalist movement, and founder and director of ''Esprit'', the magazine w ...
*
Louis Néel
Louis Eugène Félix Néel (22 November 1904 – 17 November 2000) was a French physicist born in Lyon who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 for his studies of the magnetic properties of solids.
Biography
Néel studied at the Lycé ...
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Cédric O
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Gilles Pélisson
*Nadia Ramirez
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Jean-François Revel
*
Jean Reverzy Jean Reverzy ( Balan, April 10, 1914–Lyon, July 9, 1959) is a French medical doctor from Lyon who won the Prix Renaudot in 1954 for '' Le Passage'' ("The Passage"), his first novel. It described the slow anguish of a patient with liver proble ...
*
Étienne Roth
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Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
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Life
Early years
Eric-Emmanuel ...
*
Gilbert Simondon
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Jacques Soustelle
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*
Jean-François Stévenin
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Film ...
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Jean Vuarnet
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Michel Zink
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Stéphane Vaillant
Famous teachers
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Terra Stenberg
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Brad Wilgien
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Jennifer Goodrich
See also
*
Secondary education in France
In France, secondary education is in two stages:
* ''Collèges'' () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 15.
* ''Lycées'' () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for children between ...
*
Education in France
Education in France is organized in a highly centralized manner, with many subdivisions. It is divided into the three stages of primary education (''enseignement primaire''), secondary education (''enseignement secondaire''), and higher educatio ...
References
6th arrondissement of Lyon
Parc
Education in Lyon
Buildings and structures in Lyon
Educational institutions established in 1914
1914 establishments in France
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