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The Lycée Louis-le-Grand (sometimes nicknamed LLG) is a public secondary school
Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of compulsory schooling, known as secondary education, takes place....
 located in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, widely regarded as one of the most demanding in France. Formerly known as the Collège de Clermont, it was named in king Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV of France

Louis XIV ruled as List of French monarchs and of King of Navarre. He ascended the throne a few months before his fifth birthday, but did not assume actual personal control of the government until the death of his prime minister , the Italians Jules Cardinal Mazarin, in 1661....
's honor after he visited the school and offered his patronage.

It offers both a high-school curriculum (a lycée with 800 pupils), and a college-level curriculum (classes préparatoires with 900 students), preparing students for entrance to the elite
Elite

Elite is taken originally from the Latin, eligere, "to elect". In sociology as in general usage, the elite is a relatively small dominant Group within a large society, which enjoys a privileged status envied by individuals of lower social status....
 Grandes Écoles
Grandes écoles

The Grandes ?coles of France are higher education establishments outside the mainstream framework of the public university system. Unlike French public universities which have an obligation to accept all candidates of the same region who hold a Baccalaur?at, the selection criteria of Grandes ?coles rests mainly on competitive wri...
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The Lycée Louis-le-Grand (sometimes nicknamed LLG) is a public secondary school
Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of compulsory schooling, known as secondary education, takes place....
 located in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, widely regarded as one of the most demanding in France. Formerly known as the Collège de Clermont, it was named in king Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV of France

Louis XIV ruled as List of French monarchs and of King of Navarre. He ascended the throne a few months before his fifth birthday, but did not assume actual personal control of the government until the death of his prime minister , the Italians Jules Cardinal Mazarin, in 1661....
's honor after he visited the school and offered his patronage.

It offers both a high-school curriculum (a lycée with 800 pupils), and a college-level curriculum (classes préparatoires with 900 students), preparing students for entrance to the elite
Elite

Elite is taken originally from the Latin, eligere, "to elect". In sociology as in general usage, the elite is a relatively small dominant Group within a large society, which enjoys a privileged status envied by individuals of lower social status....
 Grandes Écoles
Grandes écoles

The Grandes ?coles of France are higher education establishments outside the mainstream framework of the public university system. Unlike French public universities which have an obligation to accept all candidates of the same region who hold a Baccalaur?at, the selection criteria of Grandes ?coles rests mainly on competitive wri...
. Louis-le-Grand is famous for having the highest success rates for École Polytechnique
École Polytechnique

The ?cole Polytechnique , often referred to by the nickname X, is the foremost France grande ?cole of engineering . Founded in 1794 and initially located in the Quartier Latin in central Paris, it was moved to Palaiseau in 1976....
, École Normale Supérieure
École Normale Supérieure

The ?cole normale sup?rieure is a France Grandes ?coles . The ENS was initially conceived during the French Revolution, and intended to provide the First French Republic with a new body of teacher, trained in the critical spirit and secular values of the the Enlightenment....
, École des Hautes Études Commerciales
HEC School of Management

The HEC Paris School of Management or ?cole des Hautes ?tudes Commerciales de Paris , is a business school located near Paris, and one of the most prestigious France Grandes ?coles....
, École Centrale Paris
École Centrale Paris

?cole Centrale Paris is a renowned French university-level institution in the field of engineering. It is also known by its original name ?cole centrale des arts et manufactures, or ECP....
 and École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris
École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris

The ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des Mines de Paris was created in 1783 by King Louis XVI of France in order to train intelligent directors of mines....
. Students at the Lycée are called magnoludoviciens.

Louis-le-Grand, founded in 1563, is located in the heart of the Quartier Latin, the traditional student's area of Paris. Rich in history, architecture, culture, this area is home to some of the oldest and most prestigious educational establishments in France, the Sorbonne
University of Paris

The historic University of Paris first appeared in the 12th century. In 1970 it was reorganized as 13 autonomous university . The university is often referred to as the Sorbonne or La Sorbonne after the collegiate institution founded about 1257 by Robert de Sorbon....
 and the Collège de France
Collège de France

The Coll?ge de France is a higher education and research establishment located in Paris, France, in the 5th arrondissement, or Latin Quarter, across the street from the historical campus of La Sorbonne at the intersection of Rue Saint-Jacques and Rue des Ecoles....
.

Louis-le-Grand plays a leading role in the education of French elites. Countless former pupils have become statesmen, diplomats, prelates, marshals of France, members of the Académie française
Académie française

L'Acad?mie fran?aise, or the French Academy, is the pre-eminent France learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Acad?mie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to Louis XIII of France....
, and men and women of letters. "The Jesuit College of Paris", wrote Élie de Beaumont in 1862, "has for a long time been a state nursery, the most fertile in great men". Indeed Molière
Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also known by his stage name Moli?re, was a French playwright and actor who is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature....
, Voltaire
Voltaire

Fran?ois-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Age of Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosophy known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberty, including freedom of religion and free trade....
, Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo

Victor-Marie Hugo was a France poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romanticism movement in France....
 are former students who became famous writers and, Georges Pompidou
Georges Pompidou

Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou was a France politician. He was Prime Minister of France from 1962 to 1968, holding the longest tenure in this position, and later President of the French Republic from 1969 until his death in 1974....
, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Val?ry Marie Ren? Georges Giscard d'Estaing,Constitutional Council of France , is a France centrism-conservatism politician who was President of France of the French Fifth Republic from 1974 until 1981....
, Jacques Chirac
Jacques Chirac

Jacques Ren? Chirac served as the President of France from 17 May 1995 until 16 May 2007. As President he also served as an ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra and Grand Master of the French L?gion d'honneur....
, all presidents of the French Fifth Republic
French Fifth Republic

The Fifth Republic is the fifth and current Republicanism Constitution of France of France, which was introduced on October 5, 1958. The Fifth Republic emerged from the collapse of the French Fourth Republic, replacing a parliamentary government with a semi-presidential system....
 (except president Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy

Nicolas Sarkozy is the 23rd President of the French Republic and ex officio List of Co-Princes of Andorra. He assumed the office on 16 May 2007 after defeating Socialist Party candidate S?gol?ne Royal ten days earlier....
), all once spent time on the benches of Louis-le-Grand. Renowned foreign students of the Lycée include King Nicholas I of Montenegro
Nicholas I of Montenegro

Nikola I Mirkov Petrovic-Njego? was the only monarch of Kingdom of Montenegro, reigning as king from 1910 to 1918 and as prince from 1860 to 1910....
 and Léopold Sédar Senghor
Léopold Sédar Senghor

L?opold S?dar Senghor was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who served as the first List of Presidents of Senegal of Senegal ....
, the first president of Senegal
Senegal

Senegal , officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country south of the S?n?gal River in West Africa. Senegal is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south....
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    Alain de Benoist

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  • Pierre Bourdieu
    Pierre Bourdieu

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  • Paul Bourget
    Paul Bourget

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    Eugène Burnouf

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    Jacques Derrida

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  • Denis Diderot
    Denis Diderot

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  • Maurice Druon
    Maurice Druon

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  • Émile Durkheim
    Émile Durkheim

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  • Théophile Gautier
    Théophile Gautier

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    Victor Hugo

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    Joseph Kessel

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  • Bernard-Henri Lévy
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  • Émile Littré
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  • Louis Massignon
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  • Robert Merle
    Robert Merle

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  • Maurice Merleau-Ponty
    Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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  • Molière
    Molière

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  • Charles Péguy
    Charles Péguy

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  • Bertrand Poirot-Delpech
    Bertrand Poirot-Delpech

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  • Romain Rolland
    Romain Rolland

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  • Marquis de Sade
    Marquis de Sade

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  • Jean-Paul Sartre
    Jean-Paul Sartre

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  • Voltaire
    Voltaire

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    • Painters and sculptors


    • Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi
    • Pierre Bonnard
      Pierre Bonnard

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    • Edgar Degas
      Edgar Degas

      Edgar Degas , born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas , was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist....
    • Eugène Delacroix
      Eugène Delacroix

      Ferdinand Victor Eug?ne Delacroix was a France Romanticism artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school....
    • Théodore Géricault
      Théodore Géricault

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    • Georges Méliès
      Georges Méliès

      Georges M?li?s , full name Marie-Georges-Jean M?li?s, was a France filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest film....

    Scientists


    • Michel Chasles
      Michel Chasles

      Michel Chasles was a France mathematician.He was born at ?pernon in France and studied at the ?cole Polytechnique in Paris under Sim?on Denis Poisson....
    • Évariste Galois
      Évariste Galois

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    • Jacques Hadamard
      Jacques Hadamard

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    • Charles Hermite
      Charles Hermite

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    • Laurent Lafforgue
      Laurent Lafforgue

      Laurent Lafforgue is a France mathematician.He entered the ?cole Normale Sup?rieure in 1986. In 1994 he received his Doctor of Philosophy under the direction of G?rard Laumon in the Arithmetic and Algebraic Geometry team at the Universit? de Paris-Sud....
    • Vincent Lafforgue
    • Louis Leprince-Ringuet
    • Pierre-Louis Lions
      Pierre-Louis Lions

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    • Paul Painlevé
      Paul Painlevé

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    • Henri Poincaré
      Henri Poincaré

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    • Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
      Jean-Christophe Yoccoz

      Jean-Christophe Yoccoz is a France mathematician. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1994, for his work on dynamical systems....


    Politicians


    • Robert Brasillach
      Robert Brasillach

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    • Thierry Breton
      Thierry Breton

      Thierry Breton was the France Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry in the governments of Jean-Pierre Raffarin and then of Dominique de Villepin , Jacques Chirac being the President de la Republique....
    • Aimé Césaire
      Aimé Césaire

      Aim? Fernand David C?saire was an Black peopleMartinique francophone poet, author and politician....
    • Jacques Chirac
      Jacques Chirac

      Jacques Ren? Chirac served as the President of France from 17 May 1995 until 16 May 2007. As President he also served as an ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra and Grand Master of the French L?gion d'honneur....
    • Pierre Cot
      Pierre Cot

      .Pierre Cot , France politician, was a leading figure in the Popular Front government of the 1930s. Born in Grenoble into a conservative Catholic family, he entered politics as an admirer of the World War I conservative leader Raymond Poincar?, but moved steadily to the left over the course of his career....
    • Michel Debré
      Michel Debré

      Michel Debr? was a French Gaullism politician. He is considered the "father" of the current Constitution of France, and was the first List of Prime Ministers of France of the French Fifth Republic....
    • Régis Debray
      Régis Debray

      Jules R?gis Debray is a France intellectual, journalist, government official and professor. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society; and for having fought in 1967 with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia....
    • Paul Deschanel
      Paul Deschanel

      Paul Eug?ne Louis Deschanel was a French statesman. He served as President of France from 18 February 1920 to 21 September 1920....
    • Camille Desmoulins
      Camille Desmoulins

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  • Laurent Fabius
    Laurent Fabius

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  • Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
    Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

    Val?ry Marie Ren? Georges Giscard d'Estaing,Constitutional Council of France , is a France centrism-conservatism politician who was President of France of the French Fifth Republic from 1974 until 1981....
  • Jean Jaurès
    Jean Jaurès

    Jean L?on Jaur?s was a French Socialism leader. Initially an Opportunist Republican, he evolved into one of the first Social Democracy, becoming the leader, in 1902, of the French Socialist Party , which opposed Jules Guesde's revolutionary Socialist Party of France....
  • Alain Juppé
    Alain Juppé

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  • Pierre Mendès France
  • Pierre Messmer
    Pierre Messmer

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  • Milan I of Serbia
  • Alexandre Millerand
    Alexandre Millerand

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  • Nicholas I of Montenegro
    Nicholas I of Montenegro

    Nikola I Mirkov Petrovic-Njego? was the only monarch of Kingdom of Montenegro, reigning as king from 1910 to 1918 and as prince from 1860 to 1910....
  • Alain Poher
    Alain Poher

    Alain ?mile Louis Marie Poher was a French centrist politician, affiliated first with the Popular Republican Movement and later with the Democratic Centre ....
     
  • Raymond Poincaré
    Raymond Poincaré

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  • Georges Pompidou
    Georges Pompidou

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  • Maximilien de Robespierre
  • Michel Rocard
    Michel Rocard

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  • Léopold Sédar Senghor
    Léopold Sédar Senghor

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  • Jean Tiberi
    Jean Tiberi

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  • Turgot


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    • André Michelin
      Michelin

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    • Cardinal de Retz
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    • Saint Francis de Sales
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    See also

    • Lycée Henri IV
      Lycée Henri IV

      The Lyc?e Henri-IV is a public secondary school located in Paris. Along with Lyc?e Louis-le-Grand, it is widely regarded as one of the most demanding in France....
    • Secondary education in France
      Secondary education in France

      In France, secondary education is in two stages:* coll?ges cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 15;...
    • Education in France
      Education in France

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