Collège-lycée Jacques-Decour
The collège-lycée Jacques-Decour is a school in Paris on the avenue Trudaine.
History
The school was founded as the private Collège Sainte-Barbe in 1821, renamed Collège Rollin in 1830. The school was transplanted in 1876 from the Quartier Latin to avenue Trudaine near Montmartre; the old building on rue Lhomond became the site of the Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris in 1877. Collège Rollin was granted municipal status,[1] and became Lycée Rollin in 1919. It is the only secondary school in Paris to have taken the name of a former teacher who was a Resistance fighter in 1944: Jacques Decour.
Alumni
Alumni include:
- Charles Forbes René de Montalembert
- Lucien Lévy (1892–1965), radio engineer and radio receiver manufacturer.
- Édouard Manet[2][3]
- Félix Ravaisson
- Georges Sorel[4]
The school today
Collège-Lycée Jacques-Decour is located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, where some 2000 people work or live: pupils, students, teachers, as well as school life, administration and management staff. A Chinese international section was opened in 2017.
References
- Great Britain. Charity Commission – 1890 "And, in addition to these, there is the celebrated ancient Rollin College, which has been taken over by the municipality. The Rollin and Chaptal Colleges are rather of a literary type, and are in reality secondary schools."
- Gilles Néret Édouard Manet, 1832–1883: The First of the Moderns 2003 p. 93 "1841 Secondary education at the College Rollin, where he meets Antonin Proust (1832–1905), a lifelong friend"
- Beth Archer Brombert Édouard Manet: Rebel in a Frock Coat 1997 p. 8 "The observation of the inspector who visited the College Rollin in 1847 is very revealing, both of the school and of the political viewpoint of the writer: "In the teaching of rhetoric at the College Rollin, particularly in the upper .. ."
- Gervasoni, Marco (1997). Georges Sorel, Una Biografia Intellettuale. Milan: Edizioni Unicopli. ISBN 8840004920.
