The ''École normale supérieure de jeunes filles'' (also, ''École normale supérieure de Sèvres'') was a French institute of higher education, in

Sèvres Sèvres (, ) is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department, Île-de-France region. The commune, which had a population of 23,251 as of 2018, is known for ...

, now a commune in the suburbs of

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Si ...

. The school educated girls only, especially as teachers for the secondary education system. It was founded on 29 July 1881 on the initiative of

Camille Sée Camille Sée (10 March 1847 – 20 January 1919) was a French politician who was born in Colmar. As the pioneer of the 1880 French law which established Lycées for girls, he also created the École normale supérieure in Sèvres in 1881. He w ...

, following the Sée-inspired act of the legislature which established

lycées 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 betwee ...

for girls.

History

On the school's founding, French Minister of National Education

Jules Ferry Jules François Camille Ferry (; 5 April 183217 March 1893) was a French statesman and republican philosopher. He was one of the leaders of the Moderate Republicans and served as Prime Minister of France from 1880 to 1881 and 1883 to 1885. He ...

named the philosopher and educator Julie Velten Favre director of the institution. The school was initially housed in the former buildings of the

Manufacture nationale de Sèvres The ''Manufacture nationale de Sèvres'' is one of the principal European porcelain factories. It is located in Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine, France. It is the continuation of Vincennes porcelain, founded in 1740, which moved to Sèvres in 1756. It ...

, from which it was ejected in 1940; it was reinstated in the Boulevard Jourdan, in the 14th arrondissement. It existed until 1985, when it merged with the

École normale supérieure 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, S ...

, Rue d'Ulm, forming a co-educational school.

Directors (1881–1988)

Julie Favre Julie Velten Favre (November 15, 1833 – ), sometimes called Madame Jules Favre, was a French philosopher and educator. She is known for her work educating young women and for advancing a moral philosophy that advocated living a virtuous life, r ...

(Madame Jules Favre) 1881–1896 * Madame née Jeanne Marie Hall:. 1896-1906 * Louise Belugou : 1906–1919 * Anne Amieux : 1919–1936 *

Eugénie Cotton Eugénie Cotton (13 October 1881 – 16 June 1967) was a French scientist, socialist, women's rights advocate and was active in the resistance. She was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1951, Knight of the Legion of Honor, and the Gold medal from ...

: 1936–1941 * Edmée Hatinguais : 1941–1944 * Lucy Prenant : 1944–1956 * : 1956–1974 * : 1974–1988

Notable students

* Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat * Marie Duflo *

Jeanne Galzy Jeanne Galzy (1883–1977), born Louise Jeanne Baraduc, was a French novelist and biographer from Montpellier. She was a long-time member of the jury for the Prix Femina. Largely forgotten today, she was known as a regional author, but also wrot ...

* Paulette Libermann * Assia Djebar *

Luce Pietri Luce Pietri (née Gascoin) is a French historian and scholar of late antiquity. Education Pietri attended the ''Lycée Thiers'' in Marseille ('' Khâgne'' 1950–51) and ''École normale supérieure de jeunes filles'' in 1952. Career Piet ...

Faculty

Élie Cartan Élie Joseph Cartan (; 9 April 1869 – 6 May 1951) was an influential French mathematician who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups, differential systems (coordinate-free geometric formulation of PDEs), and differential geometr ...

Marie Curie Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie ( , , ; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, ; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the fir ...

* Jacqueline Ferrand *

Paul Langevin Paul Langevin (; ; 23 January 1872 – 19 December 1946) was a French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation. He was one of the founders of the ''Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes'', an ant ...

André Lichnerowicz André Lichnerowicz (January 21, 1915, Bourbon-l'Archambault – December 11, 1998, Paris) was a noted French differential geometer and mathematical physicist of Polish descent. He is considered the founder of modern Poisson geometry. Biograp ...

Jean Perrin Jean Baptiste Perrin (30 September 1870 – 17 April 1942) was a French physicist who, in his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids (sedimentation equilibrium), verified Albert Einstein’s explanation of this p ...

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ecole normale superieure de jeunes filles Grandes écoles Écoles Normales Supérieures 1881 establishments in France Education in Paris 14th arrondissement of Paris Grands établissements

History

Directors (1881–1988)

Notable students

Faculty

See also

References