Lycée Les Pierres Vives is a senior high school/sixth form college in
Carrières-sur-Seine,
Yvelines
Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.[France
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, in the
Paris metropolitan area
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Overview
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The name comes from the quote of
François Rabelais
François Rabelais ( , ; ; born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author. A Renaissance humanism, humanist of the French Renaissance and Greek scholars in the Renaissance, Gr ...
"Je ne battis que pierres vives, ce sont hommes" (translation: I only build living stones, it's Men).
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External links
Lycée Les Pierres Vives
Lycées in Yvelines
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