The Lycée Buffon is a
secondary school in the
XVe arrondissement of
Paris
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, bordered by
boulevard Pasteur, the
rue de Vaugirard
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Location
The Rue de V ...
and the
rue de Staël. Its nearest
métro station is
Pasteur
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. It is named for
Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopédiste.
His works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including two prominent ...
.
Jean-Claude Durand is its current proviseur.
It is a "cité scolaire" made up of a
collège
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* ''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 ...
, a
lycée and scientific
classes préparatoires. It has 2 000 students, served by 170 professors, 4 "conseillers principaux d'éducation" and 50 other teaching personnel. It also houses an adult education centre for those taking the
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and the Licence des métiers de l'immobilier, and a UPI, the only one in Paris for the visually impaired. The young visually impaired students can then integrate into classical education.
The religious scholar
Odon Vallet studied here, and its teachers have included the philosopher and journalist
Maurice Clavel, the theatre critic and historian Gilles Sandié, and the writer and cineaste Jean Pelgri. The school's sundial can be seen on an exterior wall on rue de Vaugirard.
History
* 1885 : The architect
Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer
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conceived the idea and design for a "lycée de la
rive gauche
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", to be built on the site of the old cimetière de Vaugirard.
* 1888 : The establishment took the name "lycée Buffon", after the naturalist
the Comte de Buffon, on the centenary of his death.
* 1889 : First entrants, under director M. Adam.
* 1901 : Opening of the first classe préparatoire.
* 1914-1918 : Served as a military hospital.
* 1940-1945 : A
French Resistance
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centre.
* 8 February 1943:
Circular of the Ministre de l'Éducation nationale sur la rentrée scolaire
September 1947 Five
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* AD 5, the fifth year of the AD era
* 5 BC, the fifth year before the AD era
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of its students - Jean Arthus, Jacques Baudry, Pierre Benoît, Pierre Grelot and Lucien Legros - were shot by a German firing squad at the stand de tir de Balard in Paris. They had been arrested and condemned to death for Resistance activities in 1942. A commemorative plaque to the event is to be seen in the lycée's entrance hall on and it is also commemorated by the naming of the place des Cinq-Martyrs-du-Lycée-Buffon, at the end of boulevard Pasteur.
* 15 June 1944 : Raymond Burgard, a professor at the school, beheaded at Cologne
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by the Nazis
* 1970 : Introduction of co-ed, achieved in September 1978.
* 1988 : Sports classes set up.
* 1995 : Restoration works begun.
* 1997 : New building for specialist teaching opened.
* 1998 : New school canteen and gymnasium opened.
Gallery
Image:Lycée-Buffon-1.jpg, Arcades
Image:Lycée-Buffon-2.jpg, Cour de sport
Image:Lycée-Buffon-3.jpg, Cour d'honneur
Image:Lycée-Buffon-4.jpg, Modern section
Image:Lycée-Buffon-5.jpg, Central courtyard
Image:Lycée-Buffon-6.jpg, Arcade
Image:Lycée-Buffon-7.jpg, One of the eight towers
Image:Lycée-Buffon-8.jpg, Courtyard
External links
Lycée Buffon - official site
Notes
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Educational institutions established in 1885
1885 establishments in France