Lycée Louis-Barthou is a secondary school in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques,

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History

The school's history goes back to a religious establishment founded by

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in 1640. It is named for French politician Louis Barthou.

Academics

The school offers classes at the Seconde, Première (scientifique, littéraire, économique et social) SMTG, and Terminale level as well as Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles.

Notable pupils

Academia

Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu (; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence ...

(1930, in

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-2002) - sociologist * Guy Debord (1931 – 1994) - Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work * Louis Favoreu (1936 – 2004) - academic, specialized in public law, and a jurist * Philippe Leveau (born 1940 in Angoulême) - historian and archaeologist

Arts

* Comte de Lautréamont (1846-1870) - poet * Titouan Lamazou (born 1955 in Casablanca) - navigator, artist and writer *

Saint-John Perse Alexis Leger (; 31 May 1887 – 20 September 1975), better known by his pseudonym Saint-John Perse (; also Saint-Leger Leger), was a French poet-diplomat, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative ...

(1887-1975) - poet-diplomat, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry." * Joseph Peyré (1892-1968) - writer * Frederick Cayley Robinson (1862 – 1927) - English artist

Media and entertainment

Daniel Balavoine Daniel Xavier-Marie Balavoine (; 5 February 1952 – 14 January 1986) was a French singer and songwriter. He was hugely popular in the French-speaking world in the early 1980s; he inspired many singers of his generation such as Jean-Jacques Gol ...

(1952-1986) - singer-songwriter * Nathalie Cardone (born 1967) - actress and singer * Isabelle Ithurburu (born 1983) - sports journalist and television presenter * Denis Lalanne (1926 – 2019) - sports journalist

Politics

* Louis Barthou (1862-1934) - politician; Prime Minister of France *

Henri Emmanuelli Henri Emmanuelli (31 May 1945 – 21 March 2017) was a French politician. A member of the French Socialist Party, he was deputy for Landes from 1978 to 1981, from 1986 to 1997, and from 2000 to 2017. Early life and career Emmanuelli was born ...

(1945-2017) - politician SP *

Éric Piolle Éric Piolle (born 6 January 1973) is a French politician of Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV) who has been serving as mayor of Grenoble since 2014. . He was Regional Councillor of Rhône-Alpes from March 2010 to April 2014. Education and bus ...

(born 1973) - engineer and politician ( EELV) * Boris Vallaud (born 1975) - politician ( SP)

Sports

Édouard Cissé Édouard Léopold Cissé (born 30 March 1978) is a French former footballer who played as a midfielder. Early life Cissé was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques in southwest France. Club career Cissé made his breakthrough at his boyhood cl ...

(born 1978) - soccer player *

Tony Estanguet Tony Estanguet (born 6 May 1978 in Pau) is a French slalom canoeist and a three-time Olympic champion in C1. He competed at the international level from 1994 to 2012. Racing career Estanguet won three Olympic gold medals in the C1 event in ...

(born 1978) - canoeist, Olympic champion * Franck Lestage (born 1968) - athlete * Robert Paparemborde (1948-2001) - rugby player

Other

Léopold Eyharts Léopold "Leo" Eyharts (born April 28, 1957) is a French Brigadier General in the French Air Force, an engineer and ESA astronaut. He has flown to space two times as part of a Mir expedition and an International Space Station expedition. Eyhar ...

(born 1957) - astronaut

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References

Education in France Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques Secondary schools in France Boarding schools in France 1640 establishments in France {{France-school-stub