Lycée Georges Clemenceau (Nantes)

The Lycée Georges Clemenceau, French pronunciation: [lise ʒɔʁʒ klemɑ̃so], usually called Lycée Clemenceau is a public secondary school located in Nantes, France, formerly known as the Lycée of Nantes. Inaugurated in 1808, it is the oldest secondary school of the town of Nantes and in the department of Loire-Atlantique.

It offers both a sixth-form college curriculum (as a lycée), and a post-secondary-level curriculum (classes préparatoires).

It is located next to a botanic garden (Jardin des plantes). Train and tram stations offer an easy access to the school for students. Furthermore there is a lovely chapel inside.

The Emperor Napoleon visited the Lycée on 9 August 1808. The school was rebuilt from 1886 to 1892 to a design by the architects Antoine Demoget and Léon Lenoir. Many famous people studied in Clemenceau, like the writer Jules Verne and the politician Georges Clemenceau who give his name to the school.

Famous Alumni

Writers

Henri Anger (1907–1989), novelist
Rene Guy Cadou (1920-1951, poet)
Alphonse de Châteaubriant (1877-1951)
Edmond Coarer-Kalondan (1909-1981)
Tristan Corbière (1845-1865, poet)
Marc Elder (1884-1933)
Julien Gracq (1910-2007)
Morvan Lebesque (1911-1970, also journalist)
Jean Sarment (1897-1976, also actor)
Marcel Schwob (1867-1905)
Jules Verne (1828-1905)
Jacques Vaché (1895-1919)
Jules Vallès (1832-1885)

Politicians

Yed Angoran, minister of the industry from Ivory Coast
François Autain, senator and Secretary of State
Louis Mathurin Babin-Chevaye, industrial and deputy
Jean Babin-Chevaye, industrial and senator
Robert Badinter, lawyer, minister of Justice, president of the Constitutional Council
Mehdi Bazargan, 46th Prime Minister of Iran (1979)^[1]
Paul Bellamy, deputy-mayor of Nantes
Aristide Briand, minister, president of the Council (prime minister) and Nobel Peace Prize
Georges Clemenceau, journalist, senator and president of the Council (prime minister)
Henri Lopès, prime minister of the Republic of the Congo
André Morice, minister, parliamentary and mayor of Nantes
Abdollah Riazi, 16th Speaker of the Parliament of Iran (1963–1978)^[1]
Jacques Sourdille, medicine professor and Secretary of State.

Painters

Musicians, dancers, cineastes and actors

The brothers André et Georges Bellec (singers from the group les Frères Jacques)
Yvan Dautin (singer)
Jacques Garnier (dancer and choreograph)
Jacques Grand-Jouan (cineaste)
Thierry Fortineau (actor)
Paul Ladmirault (compositor)
Yves Lecoq (actor)
Jacques Legras (actor)
Olivier Messiaen
François Tusques (compositor)
François Verret (choreograph)
Christine and the Queens (musician)

Industrial and engineer

Doctors

Félix Guyon (surgeon)
Gustave Rappin (doctor)

Military

General Boulanger
General Buat
General Huntziger
General Lamoricière

References

^ ^a ^b Houchang E. Chehabi (1990). Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini. I.B.Tauris. p. 108. ISBN 1850431981.

External links

official site of the lycée Clemenceau

47°13′08″N 1°32′42″W / 47.2189°N 1.5450°W / 47.2189; -1.5450

[HC-1] Houchang E. Chehabi (1990). Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini. I.B.Tauris. p. 108. ISBN 1850431981.

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