The Collège Sainte-Barbe () is a former college in the
5th arrondissement of Paris
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France
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The Collège Sainte-Barbe was founded in 1460 on
Montagne Sainte-Geneviève (
Latin Quarter, Paris). It was until its closure in June 1999 the "oldest" identified college of Paris.
The Barbiste Spirit is kept alive through the Friendly Association of Old Barbistes, founded in 1820, recognized a public society since 1880, which is the oldest association of alumni of France, "l'Association Amicale des Anciens Barbistes".
Alumni
Former Barbists (ordered by date of birth) include:
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Diogo de Gouveia (1471–1557)
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Ignace de Loyola (1491–1556)
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André de Gouveia (1497–1548)
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St. François-Xavier (1506–1552), Roman Catholic missionary to India, China, and Southeast Asia
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Pierre Lefevre (1506–1546)
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Guillaume Postel (1510–1581)
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Achilles Statius (1524–1581)
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Michel Adanson (1727–1806),naturalist)
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Jean Baptiste Louis Romé de Lisle (1736–1790), founder of crystallography
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Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier (1745–1799)
[Elliot, Brian A. ''Blériot, Herald of an Age'' Stroud: Tempus 2000 p.11]
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Eugène Scribe
Augustin Eugène Scribe (; 24 December 179120 February 1861) was a French dramatist and librettist. He is known for writing "well-made plays" ("pièces bien faites"), a mainstay of popular theatre for over 100 years, and as the librettist of man ...
(1791–1861), dramatist and librettist
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Felix Dupanloup (1802–1878), bishop
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James Manby Gully (1808–1883), pioneer of hydrotherapy
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Warren De la Rue (1815–1889), British astronomer
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Gustave Eiffel
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel ( , ; Bonickhausen dit Eiffel; 15 December 1832 – 27 December 1923) was a French civil engineer. A graduate of École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, he made his name with various bridges for the French railway net ...
(1832–1923), engineer
[Loyrette, Henri ''Gustave Eiffel'' New York: Rizzoli, 1985 p.29]
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Sarkis Balyan (; 1835–1899)
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Arsène d'Arsonval (1851–1940), physicist and doctor
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Constantin Costa-Foru (26 October 1856 – 15 August 1935)
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Alfred Dreyfus
Alfred Dreyfus (9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French Army officer best known for his central role in the Dreyfus affair. In 1894, Dreyfus fell victim to a judicial conspiracy that eventually sparked a major political crisis in the Fre ...
(1859–1939)
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Jean Jaurès (1859–1914)
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Émile Borel
Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel (; 7 January 1871 – 3 February 1956) was a French people, French mathematician and politician. As a mathematician, he was known for his founding work in the areas of measure theory and probability.
Biograp ...
(1871–1956), mathematician
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Enrique Zóbel de Ayala (born 1877), patriarch of the
Filipino billionaire family of
Zobel de Ayala
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Charles Péguy (1873–1914)
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Louis Blériot (1872–1936) Engineer and pioneer aviator
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* Henri-George Clouzot (1907–1977), scenario writer
* the actors ]Michel Piccoli
Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli (27 December 1925 – 12 May 2020) was a French actor, producer and film director with a career spanning 70 years. He was lauded as one of the greatest French character actors of his generation who played a wide vari ...
(born 1925)
* Claude Lelouch
Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (; born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s. Lelouch gained critical ...
(born 1937), scenario writers
* Bernard Kouchner (born 1939)
* François Berléand (born 1952)
Former faculty
Among the former professors are the historian Jules Michelet
Jules Michelet (; 21 August 1798 – 9 February 1874) was a French historian and writer. He is best known for his multivolume work ''Histoire de France'' (History of France). Michelet was influenced by Giambattista Vico; he admired Vico's emphas ...
(1798–1874) and the journalist Serge July (born 1942).
Buildings
The buildings of the college have undergone numerous modifications since its establishment in 1460. A university library, the Sainte-Barbe Library, has opened to the public in March 2009.
Notes
References
Schools in Paris
Buildings and structures in the 5th arrondissement of Paris
1460 establishments in Europe
1460s establishments in France
Former buildings and structures in Paris
Latin Quarter, Paris
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