Lycée Henri-IV

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The Lycée Henri-IV ^[1] (sometimes called HIV, H4, or Henri-Quatre) is a public secondary school located in Paris. Along with Louis-le-Grand, it is widely regarded as one of the most demanding in France.

The school has more than 2,500 pupils from collège (the first four years of secondary education in France) to classes préparatoires (classes to prepare students for entrance to the elite Grandes écoles).^[1]

Contents 1 Famous alumni 2 Famous teachers 3 See also 4 Bibliography 5 Notes 6 External links

At the yearly competitive entrance examinations for the various scientific, humanities, and business Grandes Écoles, students from the Lycée Henri-IV's classes préparatoires regularly have the highest rate of admission.

Henri-IV is located in the nationally-historic buildings of the former Sainte Geneviève abbey.^[1] After the French revolution, it was transformed into a public lycée, the first one in France. It is located in the heart of the Latin Quarter^[1] on the left bank of the river Seine, near the Panthéon, the church Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, and the rue Mouffetard. The Latin Quarter is the traditional academic neighborhood of Paris. Rich in history, architecture, and culture, this area encompasses the oldest and the most prestigious educational establishments in France: (the École Normale Supérieure, the Sorbonne, the Collège de France, the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, etc.)

[edit] Famous alumni

• Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale, governor-general of Algeria, member of parliament, member of the Académie française, the Académie des Beaux Arts and the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques
  • other sons of King Louis-Philippe
• Guy Béart, singer
• Jean-Marie Benoist, anthropologist
• Léon Blum, French prime minister (of the Front populaire party)
• Jean-Louis Bory, novelist and film critic
• Jacques de Bourbon Busset, co-founder of CERN, member of the Académie française
• Patrick Bruel, composer (who refers to the lycée in his song, «Place des grands hommes»)

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer Camille Dalmais, singer Emmanuel Chain, journalist and television producer Gilles Deleuze, philosopher Léon-Paul Fargue, poet Michel Foucault, philosopher Paul Fournel, writer and bicyclist Georges Friedmann, sociologist Albert Gardes, artist André Gide, writer Julien Gracq, writer Georges-Eugène Haussmann, baron, préfet, and city planner Alfred Jarry, writer (of Ubu Roi, for example) Pierre Loti, sailor and writer Jacques Maritain, philosopher Guy de Maupassant, writer Prosper Mérimée, writer (of Carmen, for example)

Alain Minc, writer, reporter, engineer and businessman Alfred de Musset, playwright Paul Nizan, philosopher and writer Jean d'Ormesson, novelist Mazarine Pingeot, novelist and journalist Plantu, cartoonist for Le Monde Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter Éric Rohmer, New Wave director, writer and actor Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher Maurice Schumann, fellow of the Académie française, minister, and senator Jorge Semprún, Spanish Minister for culture Bertrand Tavernier, actor, director, producer Albert Thibaudet, essayist and critic Pierre Vidal-Naquet, historian Alfred de Vigny, poet André Vingt-Trois, current Archbishop of Paris Simone Weil, philosopher

[edit] Famous teachers

André Alba, historian Henri Bergson, philosopher Étienne Borne, philosopher Jean-Louis Bory, novelist and film critic

Émile Auguste Chartier, philosopher Georges Cuvier, naturalist and zoologist Laurent Michard, biographer and literary historian Georges Pompidou, French president

[edit] See also

• Lycée Janson de Sailly
• Lycée Louis-le-Grand
• Secondary education in France
• Education in France

[edit] Bibliography

• Sophie Peltier-Le Dinh, Danielle Michel-Chich, André Arnold-Peltier, Le Lycée Henri-IV, entre potaches et moines copistes, PIPPA , (ISBN 978-2-916506-16-6) 14€90 (photographs)

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Lycée Henri IV

• (French) Official website
• (French) Association des anciens élèves
• (French) Association historique des élèves du lycée Henri IV
• (French) Site de la classe préparatoire à l'Ecole des chartes du lycée

Coordinates: 48°50′45″N 2°20′52″E / 48.84583°N 2.34778°E / 48.84583; 2.34778