Lycée Michelet (Vanves)

Lycée Michelet (Michelet High school), is an establishment located in Vanves (Hauts-de-Seine), bringing together middle school, general education high school and classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles in buildings classified as Monument historique (historical monuments) and surrounded by a park of 17 hectares. It originated from the 1853 establishment of the "Petit collège of Lycée Louis-le-Grand".[1]
Notable people
Professors
- Jean Poperen (politician, deputy),
 - Maurice Druon (writer, author of The Accursed Kings, academician, former Minister of Cultural Affairs),
 - Pierre Chaunu (history and geography) from 1951 to 1956,
 - Émile Schuffenecker (drawing)
 - Jean-Paul Coche (olympic athlete)
 
Students
- Jean Aujame (artist),
 - Francis Blanche (actor and comedian),
 - Pierre Bonnard (artist),
 - Jean Borotra (Davis Cup winner),
 - Francis Bouygues (founder of Bouygues),
 - Albin Chalandon (former French minister of housing),
 - Jean-Claude Chermann (scientist, co-discover of HIV virus),
 - Jean Dausset (biologist, Nobel Prize winner),
 - Jean-Paul Delahaye (computer scientist and mathematician),
 - Robert Delaunay, 1885–1941, (artist),[2]
 - Paul Deschanel (Former president of France),
 - Alexandre Millerand (lawyer and former president of France),
 - Dieudonné M'bala M'bala[3] (comedian),
 - Maurice Donnay[4] (French playwright),
 - Maurice Druon (French writer and academician),
 - Jean Glavany (former minister of agriculture, deputy for the Hautes Pyrénées),
 - Fernand Gregh (poet).
 - Hector Guimard (architect),
 - Victor Hugo (writer)
 - René Huyghe (professor at the Collège de France and member of the French Academy),
 - Jacques Maillot (businessman) (entrepreneur, founder of the Nouvelles Frontières company),
 - Jean-Michel Jarre (musician),
 - Serge Lama (singer),
 - Robert Merle (writer, Prix Goncourt 1949),
 - Georges Méliès (inventor of the first special effects in the cinema),
 - Serge Moati (journalist, writer, television host, actor, director, screenwriter, producer),
 - Hervé Novelli (French politician),
 - Gaston Palewski (former Minister of Scientific Research and President of the Constitutional Council (France)),
 - Jean-François Parot (diplomat and writer),
 - Michel Pastoureau (medieval historian),
 - Émile Picard (French mathematician and academician),
 - Maurice Ronet (actor, writer and director),
 - Mohammad Zaher Shah (last king of Afghanistan)
 - Eugene H. Trinh (physicist and NASA astronaut),
 - André Truong Trong Thi (creator of the first microcomputer in the world (1973), inventor of the first electronic archiving system),
 - Maxime Weygand (general and academician),
 - Jean-Pierre Melville (director and screenwriter)
 
References
- ^ "Historique ." Cité Scolaire Michelet de Vanves. Retrieved on 28 July 2018.
 - ^ Lamp A, biography in Robert Delaunay, endless rhythm, Center Pompidou editions
 - ^ "Lycée Michelet". parisetudiant.com. Retrieved June 2, 2015..
 - ^ Donnay, Maurice (1915). La Baïonnette No. 17 (PDF) (in French). PRINTING CRETE.
 
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lycée Michelet, Vanves.
- Lycée Michelet (in French)