The école Massillon is a private educational establishment under contract with the state with 1380 students (in 2015). The establishment is under the control of the

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. It is located in the hôtel Fieubet and the Gratry Building, in the

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. The establishment bears the name of

Jean-Baptiste Massillon Jean-Baptiste Massillon, Oratory of Jesus, CO (24 June 1663 – 28 September 1742), was a French Catholic prelate and famous preacher who served as Bishop of Clermont from 1717 until his death in Beauregard-l'Évêque. Biography Early years M ...

(1663-1742), a celebrated orator who gave the funeral oration for

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. There is also a rue Massillon in the same arrondissement, located on the

île de la Cité The Île de la Cité (; English: City Island, "Island of the City") is one of the two natural islands on the Seine River (alongside, Île Saint-Louis) in central Paris. It spans of land. In the 4th century, it was the site of the fortress of ...

The school

The teaching covers classes from kindergarten to High School. The establishment is twinned with the

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; it is also a

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exam centre. The UAI code for the establishment is 0 752 920 S for the college.

International dimension

The school has a native German and a native English section. Non-native students can also follow advanced German and English language classes. The school also prepares students for language exams such as the Cambridge English Advanced (CAE) and the Deutsches Sprachdiplom 1 and 2 (DSD).

Ranking of the lycée

In 2022, the lycée was ranked 17th on the national leve

and 11th on the departemental level. Students obtained a 100% admission rate at the baccalauréat with 99% obtaining a mention.

History

The hôtel Fieubet was built by

Jules Hardouin-Mansart Jules Hardouin-Mansart (; 16 April 1646 – 11 May 1708) was a French Baroque architect and builder whose major work included the Place des Victoires (1684–1690); Place Vendôme (1690); the domed chapel of Les Invalides (1690), and the Gra ...

, between 1676 and 1681, for Gaspard Fieubet, Chancellor of Queen Marie-Thérèse, as part of the former Royal Hotel of Saint-Pol. The hotel was then frequented by Jean de La Fontaine and Madame de Sévigné. The hotel was decorated by Le Sueur and Vicotte. From 1814 to 1857, the hotel was a sugar refinery. In 1857, Count Pierre de Lavalette bought the hotel and with architect Jules Gros transformed it into a Baroque Italo-Spanish pastiche, doubling the size of the right wing with sculpted decoration. At the end of 1872, rue de Turenne, some priests from the Oratory began to educate youth. However, it was only from 10 October 1877 that the école Massillon began. On 3 April 1877, abbé Nouvelle bought the hôtel Fieubet. On 10 October of the same year, the building took its first 150 students. File:P1220216 Paris IV hotel Fieubet detail rwk.jpg, One of the sphinxes above the door Image:École_Massillon,_Quai_des_Celestins,_Paris.jpg, Right wing of the building — Neo-baroque Italo-Spanish motifs facing rue du Petit-Musc which is located directly to the left. File:P1190792 Paris IV hôtel Fieubet rwk.jpg, Decoration on rue du Petit-Musc. Image:Ecole Massillon Quai des Célestins 3.jpg, Detail on the east façade.

Associations

The école Massillon is rich in cultural and international diversity, and works with numerous associations, including many humanitarian organisations
A.C.K.S.P.
Solar Burkina Project...), a student investment club, multilingual debating societies, and educational associations such as a theatre club run by Xavier Maly as well as a chess club which in 2011 won a student tournament and a scout group.

Students

2021: Primary school; 313 students. College; 592 students. Lycée; 460 students.

Former students

* Michel Anthonioz (1947-2009) * Charles Consigny * Alain de Greef * Cécile de Ménibus *

Pierre Messmer Pierre Joseph Auguste Messmer (; 20 March 191629 August 2007) was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Minister of Armies under Charles de Gaulle from 1960 to 1969 – the longest serving since Étienne François, duc de Choiseul under ...

* French painter Michel-Marie Poulain (1906-1991)Bruyez, Robert
"L'habit ne fait pas (toujours)...le sexe"
in ''La Cité'', February 1, 1959, p. 1: the transgender Poulain found the school "a daily torment." * Camille Rutherford * Academic writer Frédéric Vitoux (1944-)

Disambiguation

There is also another school named Massillon in

Clermont-Ferrand Clermont-Ferrand (, , ; or simply ; ) is a city and Communes of France, commune of France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regions of France, region, with a population of 147,284 (2020). Its metropolitan area () had 504,157 inhabitants at the 2018 ...

, which also has classes from kindergarten to high school and also prepares for general baccalaureate.

Annex

Other schools run by the Oratorians : *

Collège de Juilly In France, secondary education is in two stages: * ''Collèges'' () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 14. * ''Lycées'' () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for students between ...

(

Juilly, Seine-et-Marne Juilly () is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne département in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. The composer and organist Raphaël Fumet (1898–1979) was born in Juilly Population Inhabitants are called ''Juliaciens'' in Frenc ...

) * Collège de Vendôme (

Vendôme Vendôme (, ) is a Subprefectures in France, subprefecture of the Departments of France, department of Loir-et-Cher, France. It is also the department's third-biggest Communes of France, commune with 15,856 inhabitants (2019). It is one of th ...

) * École Massillon (Paris) * École Saint-Érembert (

Saint-Germain-en-Laye Saint-Germain-en-Laye () is a Communes of France, commune in the Yvelines Departments of France, department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, from the Kilometre Zero, centre of Paris. ...

) * École Saint-Martin-de-France (

Pontoise Pontoise () is a commune north of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris, in the "new town" of Cergy-Pontoise. Administration Pontoise is the official (capital) of the Val-d'Oise '' département'', although in reality the ' ...

) * École Saint-François (

Évreux Évreux () is a commune in and the capital of the department of Eure, in the French region of Normandy. History Antiquity In late Antiquity, the town, attested in the fourth century AD, was named '' Mediolanum Aulercorum'', "the central town ...

) * École Saint-Philippe Neri (

Juan-les-Pins Juan-les-Pins (; ) is a town in the commune of Antibes in the Alpes-Maritimes department in Southeastern France. Located on the French Riviera, it is situated between Nice and Cannes, to the southwest of Nice Côte d'Azur Airport. Juan-les-Pins ...

) * Collège des Oratoriens de Joyeuse (Ardèche).

Notes and references

Alumni site

Official site

Alumni
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