Lycée Lakanal
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Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine
Sceaux is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris.-Wealth:Sceaux is famous for the Château of Sceaux, set in its large park , designed by André Le Nôtre, measuring...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. It was named after Joseph Lakanal
Joseph Lakanal
Joseph Lakanal was a French politician, and an original member of the Institut de France.-Early career:...
, a French politician, and an original member of the Institut de France. The school also offers a middle school
Middle school
Middle School and Junior High School are levels of schooling between elementary and high schools. Most school systems use one term or the other, not both. The terms are not interchangeable...
and highly ranked "classes préparatoires" undergraduate training. Famous French scientists and writers have graduated from lycée Lakanal, such as Jean Giraudoux
Jean Giraudoux
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy...
, Alain-Fournier
Alain-Fournier
Alain-Fournier was the pseudonym of Henri Alban-Fournier , a French author and soldier. He was the author of a single novel, Le Grand Meaulnes , which has been twice filmed and is considered a classic of French literature.-Biography:Alain-Fournier was born in La Chapelle-d'Angillon, in the Cher...
and Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie , born Jean Frédéric Joliot, was a French physicist and Nobel laureate.-Early years:...
. The school includes a science building, a large park
Park
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, a track, and dormitories
Dormitory
A dormitory, often shortened to dorm, in the United States is a residence hall consisting of sleeping quarters or entire buildings primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people, often boarding school, college or university students...
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.
Famous former pupils and students
- Charles PéguyCharles PéguyCharles Péguy was a noted French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalism, but by 1908 at the latest, after years of uneasy agnosticism, he had become a devout but non-practicing Roman Catholic.From that time, Catholicism strongly influenced his...
(1873–1914), writer - Paul HazardPaul HazardPaul Gustave Marie Camille Hazard , was a French scholar, professor and historian of ideas.-Biography:...
(1878–1944), historian - Jules IsaacJules IsaacJules Isaac was a Jewish French historian.-Life:His father was a Jewish career soldier from the Alsace, stationed in Rennes at the time of Jules' birth, who had opted for France rather than Prussia on the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870...
(1877–1963), historian - Marc BoegnerMarc BoegnerMarc Boegner, commonly known as pasteur Boegner , was a theologist, influential pastor, notable member of the French Resistance, and a French essayist, and a notable voice in the ecumenical movement.-Biography:...
(1881–1970), pastor and writer - Jean GiraudouxJean GiraudouxHippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy...
(1882–1944), writer - Alain-FournierAlain-FournierAlain-Fournier was the pseudonym of Henri Alban-Fournier , a French author and soldier. He was the author of a single novel, Le Grand Meaulnes , which has been twice filmed and is considered a classic of French literature.-Biography:Alain-Fournier was born in La Chapelle-d'Angillon, in the Cher...
(1886–1914), writer - Jacques RivièreJacques RivièreJacques Rivière was a French "man of letters". He edited La Nouvelle Revue Française from 1919 until his death...
(1886–1925), writer - Maurice GenevoixMaurice GenevoixMaurice Genevoix was a French author.Born on 29 November 1890 at Decize, Nièvre as Maurice-Charles-Louis-Genevoix, Genevoix spent his childhood in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire. After attending the local school, he studied at the lycée of Orléans and the Lycée Lakanal...
(1890–1980), writer - Frédéric Joliot-CurieFrédéric Joliot-CurieJean Frédéric Joliot-Curie , born Jean Frédéric Joliot, was a French physicist and Nobel laureate.-Early years:...
(1900–1958), Nobel Price holder in chemistry, physician - Robert BressonRobert Bresson-Life and career:Bresson was born at Bromont-Lamothe, Puy-de-Dôme, the son of Marie-Élisabeth and Léon Bresson. Little is known of his early life and the year of his birth, 1901 or 1907, varies depending on the source. He was educated at Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, close to Paris, and...
(1901–1999), cinéaste - Karl-Jean Longuet (1904–1981), sculptor
- Arthur AdamovArthur AdamovArthur Adamov was a playwright, one of the foremost exponents of the Theatre of the Absurd.Adamov was born in Kislovodsk in Russia to a wealthy Armenian family, which lost its wealth in 1917...
(1908–1970), writer and dramaturgist - Maurice AllaisMaurice AllaisMaurice Félix Charles Allais was a French economist, and was the 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources."...
(1911-), economist, Nobel price holder in economy - Pierre Hervé (1913–1993), deputy
- Jean-Toussaint Desanti (1914–2002), philosopher, professor at the École normale supérieure and the Sorbonne
- Jacques Chaban-DelmasJacques Chaban-DelmasJacques Chaban-Delmas was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1969 to 1972. In addition, for almost half a century, he was Mayor of Bordeaux and a deputy for the Gironde département....
(1915–2000), politician - Georges CondominasGeorges CondominasGeorges Louis Condominas was a French cultural anthropologist. He is best known for his field studies of the Mnong people of Vietnam.-Biography:...
(1921-), ethnologist - Jean-Jacques PauvertJean-Jacques PauvertJean-Jacques Pauvert is a French publisher, notable for publishing the work of the Marquis de Sade in the early 1950s and as the first publisher of the Story of O and the first edition of Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylone .-External links:...
(1926-), editor - Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieEmmanuel Le Roy LadurieEmmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is a French historian whose work is mainly focused upon Languedoc in the ancien regime, particularly the history of the peasantry.-Early life and career:...
(1929-), historian, professeur honoraire at the Collège de France - Gérard GenetteGérard GenetteGérard Genette is a French literary theorist, associated in particular with the structuralist movement and such figures as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, from whom he adapted the concept of bricolage.-Life:...
(1930-), theorician of literature - Joël Schmidt, writer
- Jacques BouveresseJacques BouveresseJacques Bouveresse is a philosopher who has written on subjects including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Robert Musil, Karl Kraus, philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of mathematics and analytical philosophy...
(1940-), philosopher, professeur at the Collège de France - Guy HocquenghemGuy HocquenghemGuy Hocquenghem was a French writer and queer theorist.-Biography:Guy Hocquenghem was born in the suburbs of Paris and was educated at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. At the age of fifteen he began an affair with his high school philosophy teacher, René...
(1946–1988), writer - Julien ClercJulien ClercJulien Clerc, , born as Paul Alain Leclerc on 4 October 1947 in Paris, Clerc's parents divorced when he was still young. He grew up listening to classical music in his father's home, while his mother introduced him to the music of such singers as Georges Brassens and Edith Piaf...
(1947-), singer - Rony BraumanRony BraumanRony Brauman, born June 19, 1950, in Jerusalem, is a French physician specializing in tropical diseases.He was one of the early members of Médecins Sans Frontières , and was its president from 1982 to 1994...
(1950-), doctor - Laurent Collet-Billon (1950-), general delegate for armament
- Gérard Leclerc (1951-), journalist
- Thierry Le LuronThierry Le LuronThierry Le Luron was a French impersonator and humorist.-External links:*...
(1952–1986), imitator - Philippe LaguériePhilippe LaguériePhilippe Laguérie is a French priest and a Traditionalist Catholic. He directs the Institut du Bon Pasteur, which upholds the Tridentine Mass.- Career :...
(1952-), priest - Renaud Van RuymbekeRenaud Van RuymbekeRenaud van Ruymbeke is a French investigative magistrate, well known for specializing in political and financial corruption cases, who investigated on the French-Taiwan frigates Affair, which has been related to the Clearstream scandal, and on the Urba affair.- Bibliography :*Renaud van Ruymbeke,...
(1952-), magistrat - Denis Lensel (1954-), journalist and writer
- Gilles LeroyGilles LeroyGilles Leroy is a French writer. He studied at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, which appears in his 1996 novel, Les Maîtres du monde, as the "Lycée Ducasse"...
(1958-), writer (Prix Goncourt 2007) - Cédric KlapischCédric KlapischCédric Klapisch , is a French film director.Klapisch was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. He is from a Jewish family; his maternal grandparents were deported to Auschwitz. He studied cinema at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle as well as at the University of Paris VIII...
(1961-), director - Christophe ClaroChristophe ClaroChristophe Claro, better known as Claro , is a French writer and translator. He studied at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, before working as a publishers' proofreader . He is one of the leading promoters of contemporary American literature in France. His translations in French include works by William...
(1962-), writer - Laurent Vachaud (1964-), scenarist
- Emmanuel Bourdieu (1965-), writer, philosopher and director, son of sociologist and Collège de France professor Pierre BourdieuPierre BourdieuPierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher.Starting from the role of economic capital for social positioning, Bourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminologies such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus, field or location,...
- Marie NDiayeMarie NDiayeMarie NDiaye is a French novelist and playwright. She published her first novel, Quant au riche avenir, when she was only 17 and she won the Prix Femina in 2001 for her novel Rosie Carpe...
(1967-), writer (Prix Goncourt 2009) - Christophe Ferré, writer
- Pierre Courtade (1915–1963), journalist and writer
- Muriel BarberyMuriel BarberyMuriel Barbery is a French novelist and professor of philosophy.-Biography:Barbery studied at the Lycée Lakanal, entered the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud in 1990 and obtained her agrégation in philosophy in 1993...
(1969 -), writer - Yann Golanski (1971-), theoretical astrophysicist, mathematician and software pioneer
- Guillaume Peltier (1976-), politician
- Grégory LamboleyGrégory LamboleyGrégory Lamboley is a French rugby union footballer, currently playing for Stade Toulousain in the Top 14, the top competition of rugby in France. Lamboley has also played for the French national team. His usual position is as a lock or a flanker. Prior to playing for Toulouse he played for Massy...
(1982-), international French rugby player
The Lycée Lakanal in popular culture
Lycée Lakanal is the visual basis for the fictional Kadic Junior High School/Kadic Academy from Code LyokoCode Lyoko
Code Lyoko is a French animated television series created by Thomas Romain and Tania Palumbo. The series centers on boarding school students Jeremie, Ulrich, Yumi, and Odd who travel to the virtual world of Lyoko to fight against multi-agent computer program XANA with Aelita, a being originally...
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