Lycée Georges Clemenceau (Nantes)
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The Lycée Georges Clemenceau, , usually called Lycée Clemenceau is a public
secondary school A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., b ...
located in
Nantes Nantes (, ; ; or ; ) is a city in the Loire-Atlantique department of France on the Loire, from the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. The city is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, sixth largest in France, with a pop ...
, France, formerly known as the Lycée of Nantes. Inaugurated in 1808, it is the oldest secondary school of the town of Nantes and in the department of
Loire-Atlantique Loire-Atlantique (; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Louére-Atantique''; ; before 1957: ''Loire-Inférieure'', ) is a departments of France, department in Pays de la Loire on the west coast of France, named after the river Loire and the Atlantic Ocean. ...
. It offers both a sixth-form college curriculum (as a lycée), and a post-secondary-level curriculum (classes préparatoires). It is located next to a botanic garden (Jardin des plantes). The Emperor
Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led Military career ...
visited the Lycée on 9 August 1808. The school was rebuilt from 1886 to 1892 to a design by the architects Antoine Demoget and Léon Lenoir. Notable alumni include the writer
Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraor ...
and the politician
Georges Clemenceau Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French statesman who was Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A physician turned journalist, he played a central role in the poli ...
for whom the school was renamed.


Notable alumni


Writers

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Henri Anger Henri Anger (8 June 1907 – 1989) was a French journalist and writer. Entered at '' Télégramme de Brest et de l'Ouest'' in 1944, he became its chief editor in 1965. He used to sign his columns under the pseudonym Kerdaniel. After he finished ...
(1907–1989), novelist *
Alphonse de Châteaubriant Alphonse Van Bredenbeck de Châteaubriant (; 25 March 1877 – 2 May 1951) was a French writer who won the Prix Goncourt in 1911 for his novel ''Monsieur de Lourdines'' and Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française for '' La Brière'' in 192 ...
(1877-1951) *
Tristan Corbière Tristan Corbière (18 July 1845 – 1 March 1875), born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean (now part of Morlaix) in Brittany, where he lived most of his life before dying of tuberculosis at the age of ...
(1845-1865, poet) * Marc Elder (1884-1933) *
Julien Gracq Julien Gracq (; born Louis Poirier; 27 July 1910 – 22 December 2007) was a French writer. He wrote novels, critiques, a play, and poetry. His literary works were noted for their dreamlike abstraction, elegant style and refined vocabulary. He ...
(1910-2007) *
Morvan Lebesque Morvan Lebesque (January 11, 1911 in Nantes, France – 4 July 1970 in Brazil), was the Breton language name of Maurice Lebesque, a Breton nationalist activist and French journalist. Lebesque was born in Nantes, at the Quai Barbin (now dock Bar ...
(1911-1970, also journalist) *
Jean Sarment Jean Sarment, real name Jean Bellemère, (13 January 1897 – 29 March 1976) was a French film and stage actor and a writer. He was nominated :Administrators of the Comédie-Française, administrator of the Comédie-Française in July 1944 altho ...
(1897-1976, also actor) *
Marcel Schwob Mayer André Marcel Schwob, known as Marcel Schwob (23 August 1867 – 26 February 1905), was a French symbolist writer best known for his short stories and his literary influence on authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Alfonso Reyes, Roberto Bo ...
(1867-1905) *
Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraor ...
(1828-1905) *
Jacques Vaché Jacques Vaché Jacques Vaché (7 September 1895 – 6 January 1919) was a friend of André Breton, the founder of surrealism. Vaché was one of the chief inspirations behind the Surrealist movement. As Breton said: :"''En littérature, je me suis ...
(1895-1919) *
Jules Vallès Jules Vallès (1832–1885) was a French journalist, author, and left-wing political activist. In 1883 he was entirely successful in restarting ''Le Cri du Peuple'' as a voice for libertarian and socialist ideas. At the same time he became incre ...
(1832-1885)


Politicians

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François Autain François Autain (16 June 1935 – 21 December 2019) was a French politician. Over his career, he was a member of the Communist, Republican, and Citizen Group and a member of the Left Party, prior to which he was a member of the Citizen and Repu ...
, senator and Secretary of State *
Robert Badinter Robert Badinter (; 30 March 1928 – 9 February 2024) was a French lawyer, politician, and author who enacted the abolition of capital punishment in France in 1981, while serving as Minister of Justice under François Mitterrand. He also serve ...
, lawyer,
minister of Justice A justice ministry, ministry of justice, or department of justice, is a ministry or other government agency in charge of the administration of justice. The ministry or department is often headed by a minister of justice (minister for justice in a ...
, president of the Constitutional Council *
Mehdi Bazargan Mehdi Bazargan (; 1 September 1907 – 20 January 1995) was an Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and head of Interim government of Iran, 1979, Iran's interim government. One of the leading figures of Iranian Revolutio ...
, 46th
Prime Minister of Iran The prime minister of Iran was a political post that had existed in Iran (Persia) during much of the 20th century. It began in 1906 during the Qajar dynasty and into the start of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1923 and into the 1979 Iranian Revolution ...
(1979) *
Aristide Briand Aristide Pierre Henri Briand (; 28 March 18627 March 1932) was a French statesman who served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic. He is mainly remembered for his focus on international issues and reconciliat ...
, minister, president of the Council (prime minister) and
Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish language, Swedish and ) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the Will and testament, will of Sweden, Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Nobe ...
*
Georges Clemenceau Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French statesman who was Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A physician turned journalist, he played a central role in the poli ...
, journalist, senator and president of the Council (prime minister) *
Henri Lopès Henri Lopes (12 September 1937 – 2 November 2023) was a Congolese writer, diplomat, and politician. He was Prime Minister of Congo-Brazzaville from 1973 to 1975, and served as Congo-Brazzaville's Ambassador to France from 1998 to 2016. Earl ...
, prime minister of the
Republic of the Congo The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo), is a country located on the western coast of Central ...
*
André Morice André Morice (; 11 October 1900, Nantes – 17 January 1990) was a French politician. He represented the Radical Party in the Constituent Assembly elected in 1945, in the Constituent Assembly elected in 1946 and in the National Assembly from 19 ...
, minister, parliamentary and mayor of Nantes *
Abdollah Riazi Abdollah Riazi () was an Iranian politician who served as the Speaker of the Parliament of Iran for almost 15 years during the Pahlavi era. According to Ali Rahnema, Riazi was "one of permanent and trusted figures" in the establishment, thus "e ...
, 16th Speaker of the Parliament of Iran (1963–1978)


Painters

* Maurice Chabas *
Paul Chabas Paul may refer to: People * Paul (given name), a given name, including a list of people * Paul (surname), a list of people * Paul the Apostle, an apostle who wrote many of the books of the New Testament * Ray Hildebrand, half of the singing duo ...
* Emile Laboureur *
Maxime Maufra Maxime Maufra (17 May 1861 – 23 May 1918) was a French landscape and marine painter, etcher and lithographer. Life Maufra first began painting at 18. He was encouraged to do so by two artists from Nantes such as the brothers Charles Ledu ...
*
Jean Metzinger Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (; 24 June 1883 – 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism. His earliest works, from 1 ...
*
James Tissot Jacques Joseph Tissot (; 15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902), better known as James Tissot ( , ), was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist. He was born to a drapery merchant and a milliner and decided to pursue a career in art at a y ...


Performing arts

* The brothers
André André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries, as well in Portugal ...
and Georges Bellec (singers from the group
les Frères Jacques Les Frères Jacques were a French vocal quartet active from 1946 to 1982, comprising André Bellec, Georges Bellec, François Soubeyran, and Paul Tourenne.Billboard - Jun 8, 1974 "Les Freres Jacques, a vocal quartet which specializes in comic ...
) * Yvan Dautin (singer) * Jacques Garnier (dancer and choreographer) *
Thierry Fortineau Thierry Fortineau (9 February 1953 – 8 February 2006) was a French actor. Fortineau was born in Nantes. In the year of 1990, he was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actor at the 15th César Awards for his role in ''Comédie d'à ...
(actor) *
Paul Ladmirault Paul Émile Ladmirault (8 December 1877 – 30 October 1944) was a French composer and music critic whose music expressed his devotion to Brittany. Claude Debussy wrote that his work possessed a "fine dreamy musicality", commenting on its charact ...
(composer) * Yves Lecoq (actor) * Jacques Legras (actor) *
Olivier Messiaen Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithology, ornithologist. One of the major composers of the 20th-century classical music, 20th century, he was also an ou ...
*
François Tusques François Tusques (born January 27, 1938, in Paris, France) is a French jazz pianist. Tusques played a significant role in the emergence of a community of free jazz musicians in France. Discography * ''Free Jazz'', with Bernard Vitet, Beb Guér ...
(composer) *
Christine and the Queens Rahim Claude Redcar (sometimes shortened to Chris or Redcar; born Héloïse Adélaïde Letissier; 1 June 1988) is a French singer and songwriter, best known under the pseudonym of Christine and the Queens. Born and raised in Nantes, he started ...
(musician)


Architecture

* Pol Abraham (architect)


Military

* General Boulanger * General Buat * General Huntziger * General Lamoricière


Further reading


Books

*Jean Guiffan, Joël Barreau and Jean-Louis Liters dir., ''Le Lycée Clemenceau. 200 ans d'histoire''; Nantes, éditions Coiffard, 2008. *Jean Guiffan, ''Le Péché de Nantes. L'abbé Follioley, dernier proviseur ecclésiastique (1890-1898)'', Éditions du Petit Véhicule, Nantes, 1998. Réédition, ''Le Dernier Prêtre-proviseur (1890-1898). "Le Péché de Nantes"'', 2007.


References


External links


official site
of the lycée Clemenceau {{DEFAULTSORT:Lycee Georges Clemenceau Educational institutions established in 1808 1808 establishments in France Lycées in Nantes