Lycée Lakanal is a public secondary school in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France, in the

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. It was named after Joseph Lakanal, a French politician, and an original member of the Institut de France. The school also offers a

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and highly ranked " classes préparatoires" undergraduate training. Famous French scientists and writers have graduated from lycée Lakanal, such as

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, Alain-Fournier and

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. The school includes a science building, a large park, a track, and dormitories for the Pôle Espoir Rugby and the boarding students. Several teachers also live at the school along with boarding students. The main classrooms and the dormitories are in one building, and the school uses space heaters in every classroom except the science building's classrooms and the gymnasium.
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Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine Sceaux () is a Communes of France, commune in the Hauts-de-Seine Departments of France, department in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre zero, centre of Paris. In 2019, Sceaux had a population of 20,004. Scea ...

. Retrieved on September 9, 2016.

History

Jules Ferry, the Minister of Public Instruction in the 1880s, ordered the school built. Construction took place between 1882 and 1885.

Famous former pupils and students

* Charles Péguy (1873–1914), writer * Paul Hazard (1878–1944), historian * Jules Isaac (1877–1963), historian * Marc Boegner (1881–1970), pastor and writer *

(1882–1944), writer * Alain-Fournier (1886–1914), writer * Jacques Rivière (1886–1925), writer * Maurice Genevoix (1890–1980), writer *

(1900–1958), Nobel laureate in chemistry, physicist *

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(1901–1999), filmmaker * Karl-Jean Longuet (1904–1981), sculptor * Arthur Adamov (1908–1970), writer and playwright *

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(1909–1950), politician, engineer, military officer from Venezuela * Maurice Allais (1911–2010), economist, Nobel laureate in economics * Pierre Hervé (1913–1993), deputy * Jean-Toussaint Desanti (1914–2002), philosopher, professor at the École normale supérieure and the Sorbonne * Jacques Chaban-Delmas (1915–2000), politician * Jacques Durand (1920–2009), engineer and automobile designer * Georges Condominas (1921–2011), ethnologist * Jean-Jacques Pauvert (1926–2014), editor * Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929–2023), historian, honorary professor at the Collège de France *

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(1930–2018), literary theorist * Joël Schmidt, writer * Dimitri Kitsikis (1935–2021), Geopolitician, Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, Honorary President, The Dimitri Kitsikis Public Foundation. * James Austin (1940–), fine-art and architectural photographer * Jacques Bouveresse (1940–2021), philosopher, professor at the Collège de France * Colin François Lloyd Austin (1941–2010), scholar of ancient Greek * Guy Hocquenghem (1946–1988), writer * Julien Clerc (1947–), singer * Rony Brauman (1950–), doctor * Laurent Collet-Billon (1950–), general delegate for armament * Gérard Leclerc (1951–), journalist * Philippe Laguérie (1952–), priest * Renaud Van Ruymbeke (1952–), magistrate * Denis Lensel (1954–), journalist and writer * Sauveur Chemouni (1954–) founder of Invision Technologies, California * Gilles Leroy (1958–), writer (Prix Goncourt 2007) * Cédric Klapisch (1961–), director * Christophe Claro (1962–), writer * Laurent Vachaud (1964–), scriptwriter * Emmanuel Bourdieu (1965–), writer, philosopher and director, son of sociologist and Collège de France professor

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* Pap Ndiaye (1965–), politician, minister of National Education and Youth * Marie NDiaye (1967–), writer (Prix Goncourt 2009) * Christophe Ferré, writer * Pierre Courtade (1915–1963), journalist and writer * Muriel Barbery (1969 –), writer * Yann Golanski (1971–), theoretical astrophysicist, mathematician and software pioneer * Laurent Chambon (1972–), sociologist * Guillaume Peltier (1976–), politician * Grégory Lamboley (1982–), international French rugby player

Lycée Lakanal in popular culture

Lycée Lakanal is the visual basis for the fictional ''Kadic Junior High School''/''Kadic Academy'' from '' Code Lyoko''. However, it is not in the same location as Lakanal, being in

Boulogne-Billancourt Boulogne-Billancourt (; often colloquially called simply Boulogne, until 1924 Boulogne-sur-Seine, ) is a wealthy and prestigious Communes of France, commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, located from the Kilometre zero, centre of Paris ...

just north of there.

External links

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Lycee Lakanal on Facebook

References

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