The ''École normale supérieure de jeunes filles'' (also, ''École normale supérieure de Sèvres'') was a French institute of higher education, in
Sèvres, now a
commune in the suburbs of
Paris
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. 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, following the Sée-inspired act of the legislature which established
lycées for girls. In 1985, it merged with the
École normale supérieure of the rue d'Ulm.
History
On the school's founding, French
Minister of National Education Jules Ferry 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, 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 or Ecole may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...
, Rue d'Ulm, forming a co-educational school.
Directors (1881–1988)
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Julie Favre (Madame
Jules Favre) 1881–1896
* Madame née Jeanne Marie Hall:
[.] 1896-1906
* Louise Belugou : 1906–1919
*
Anne Amieux : 1919–1936
*
Eugénie Cotton : 1936–1941
* Edmée Hatinguais : 1941–1944
* Lucy Prenant : 1944–1956
* : 1956–1974
* : 1974–1988
Notable alumni
*
Rose Celli
*
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
*
Assia Djebar
*
Marie Duflo
*
Jeanne Galzy
*
Paulette Libermann
*
Luce Pietri
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 geometry. He ...
*
Eugénie Cotton
*
Marie Curie
Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (; ; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie ( ; ), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
She was List of female ...
*
Jacqueline Ferrand
*
Paul Langevin
*
André Lichnerowicz
*
Jean Perrin
See also
*
École normale supérieure
École or Ecole may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...
References
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Grandes écoles
Écoles Normales Supérieures
1881 establishments in France
Education in Paris
14th arrondissement of Paris
Grands établissements