Lycée Lakanal () is a public secondary school in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France, in the Paris metropolitan area. It was named after Joseph Lakanal, a French politician, and an original member of the Institut de France. The school also offers a middle school and highly ranked "classes préparatoires" undergraduate training. Famous French scientists and writers have graduated from lycée Lakanal, such as Jean Giraudoux, Alain-Fournier and Frédéric Joliot-Curie. 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.
the school has about 2,550 students in all levels, from junior high school to preparatory classes."Etablissements d’enseignement secondaire et supérieur ." Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine. Retrieved on 9 September 2016.
History Jules Ferry, the Minister of Public Instruction in the 1880s, ordered the school built. Construction took place between 1882 and 1885.
Notable alumni
Charles Péguy (1873–1914), writer Paul Hazard (1878–1944), historian Jules Isaac (1877–1963), historian Marc Boegner (1881–1970), pastor and writer Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944), writer Alain-Fournier (1886–1914), writer Jacques Rivière (1886–1925), writer Maurice Genevoix (1890–1980), writer Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–1958), Nobel laureate in chemistry, physicist Robert Bresson (1901–1999), filmmaker Karl-Jean Longuet (1904–1981), sculptor Arthur Adamov (1908–1970), writer and playwright Carlos Delgado Chalbaud (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 Gérard Genette (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 Pierre Bourdieu 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 Yves Mourousi (1942–1998), news presenter and journalist
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 just north of there.
Lycee Lakanal is mentioned in John Le Carre's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in Jim Prideaux's backstory.
External links Lycée Lakanal
Lycee Lakanal on Facebook
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