Lycée Buffon

One of the school's eight towers.

The lycée Buffon is a secondary school in the XVe arrondissement of Paris, bordered by boulevard Pasteur, the rue de Vaugirard and the rue de Staël. Its nearest métro station is Pasteur. Jean-Claude Durand is its current proviseur.

It is a "cité scolaire" made up of a collège, a lycée and scientific classes préparatoires. It has 2 000 students,^[1] served by 170 professors, 4 "conseillers principaux d'éducation" and 50 other teaching personnel. It also houses an adult education centre for those taking the BTS and the Licence des métiers de l'immobilier, and a UPI, the only one in Paris for the visually impaired. The young visually impaired students can then integrate into classical education.

The religious scholar Odon Vallet studied here, and its teachers have included the philosopher and journalist Maurice Clavel, the theatre critic and historian Gilles Sandié, and the writer and cineaste Jean Pelgri. The school's sundial can be seen on an exterior wall on rue de Vaugirard.

History

1885 : The architect Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer conceived the idea and design for a "lycée de la rive gauche", to be built on the site of the old cimetière de Vaugirard.
1888 : The establishment took the name "lycée Buffon", after the naturalist the Comte de Buffon, on the centenary of his death.
1889 : First entrants, under director M. Adam.
1901 : Opening of the first classe préparatoire.
1914-1918 : Served as a military hospital.
1940-1945 : A French Resistance centre.
8 February 1943:^[2] Five of its students - Jean Arthus, Jacques Baudry, Pierre Benoît, Pierre Grelot and Lucien Legros - were shot by a German firing squad at the stand de tir de Balard in Paris. They had been arrested and condemned to death for Resistance activities in 1942. A commemorative plaque to the event is to be seen in the lycée's entrance hall on and it is also commemorated by the naming of the place des Cinq-Martyrs-du-Lycée-Buffon, at the end of boulevard Pasteur.
15 June 1944 : Raymond Burgard, a professor at the school, beheaded at Cologne by the Nazis
1970 : Introduction of co-ed, achieved in September 1978.
1988 : Sports classes set up.
1995 : Restoration works begun.
1997 : New building for specialist teaching opened.
1998 : New school canteen and gymnasium opened.

Gallery

Arcades
Cour de sport
Cour d'honneur
Modern section
Central courtyard
Arcade
One of the eight towers
Courtyard

External links

Lycée Buffon - official site

Notes

Coordinates: 48°50′35″N 2°18′41″E / 48.84306°N 2.31139°E / 48.84306; 2.31139

Sixth-form colleges (Lycées) and upper secondary schools in Paris by arrondissement

All are in the jurisdiction of the Académie de Paris (FR) (see FRWiki list)

2nd	Lycée Jean-Baptiste Lulli

3rd	Lycée Simone-Weil Lycée Turgot (FR) Lycée Victor Hugo

4th	École Massillon (FR) Lycée Charlemagne Lycée des Francs-Bourgeois (FR) Lycée Sophie Germain Lycée d'enseignement commercial Théophile Gautier

5th	Lycée Henri-IV Lycée Jacques-Monod Lycée Louis-le-Grand Lycée Louise-de-Marillac Lycée Lucas-de-Nehou Collège Sévigné

6th	Lycée Fénelon Lycée Maximilien-Vox Lycée Montaigne Lycée Saint-Louis Collège Stanislas de Paris Lycée Carcado-Saisseval (FR) École alsacienne (FR) Groupe Scolaire Notre-Dame de Sion Lycée Sainte-Geneviève Lycée Saint-Nicolas Lycée Saint-Suplice

7th	Lycée Victor-Duruy (FR) Établissement La Rochefoucauld (FR) Institut de l'Alma Lycée-collège Paul-Claudel Lycée d'Hulst Lycée Sainte-Jeanne Elisabeth Lycée Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin (FR) Lycée Thérèse-Chappuis Istituto Statale Italiano Leonardo Da Vinci

8th	Lycée Chaptal Lycée Racine (FR) Cours Hattemer Lycée Fénelon Sainte-Marie (FR)

9th	Lycée Condorcet Lycée Edgar-Quinet Collège-lycée Jacques-Decour Lycée Jules-Ferry Lycée Lamartine Collège-lycée Morvan École privée technique Pétrelle (FR)

10th	Lycée Colbert Lycée Edgar-Poe Lycée Jules-Siegfried Établissement Bossuet Notre-Dame Lycée Rocroy-Saint-Léon (FR)

11th	Lycée Dorian (FR) Lycée Voltaire Établissement Charles-Péguy Lycée Ozar Hatorah Votre École Chez Vous

12th	Lycée Arago (FR) Lycée Paul-Valéry (FR) Lycée Saint-Michel de Picpus (FR) Cours Spinoza Ensemble scolaire Eugène-Napoléon - Saint-Pierre-Fourier Établissement scolaire Georges-Leven

13th	Lycée Rodin (FR) Lycée Claude-Monet (FR) Lycée professionnel Corvisart-Tolbiac École nationale de chimie physique et biologie de Paris (FR) École Yabné (FR) Groupe scolaire Notre Dame de France Groupe scolaire Saint Vincent de Paul Lycée Le Rebours Lycée Technique Privé de l'École Technique Supérieure du Laboratoire

14th	Lycée Catherine-Labouré Lycée François-Villon Lycée Raspail (FR)

15th	Lycée Beaugrenelle Lycée Claude Anthime Corbon Lycée Roger Verlomme Lycée Brassai Lycée Louis-Armand Lycée Fresnel Lycée Léonard de Vinci Lycée de l'École nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliquées Lycée Bâtiment Saint Lambert Etablissement régional adapté Alexandre Dumas Lycée Buffon Lycée Camille-Sée (FR) Lycée autogéré de Paris (FR) École Jeannine Manuel École, Collège, Lycée Privés Sainte-Élisabeth Lycée Blomet École Internationale Bilingue- Victor Hugo School Ecole Skol Diwan Ecole secondaire Georges Gusdorf Ecole Saint Joseph

16th	Lycée Claude-Bernard Lycée Janson de Sailly Lycée Jean-Baptiste-Say (FR) Lycée Molière (FR) Lycée La Fontaine Lycée Octave-Feuillet École Pascal (FR) Lycée René-Cassin École normale israélite orientale (FR) Institut de l'Assomption (FR) Cours privé Beauséjour École d'esthétique Yves Rocher Institut de La Tour International School of Paris Russian Embassy School in Paris Établissement Gerson (FR) Ipécom Paris Lycée Moria-Diane Benvenuti Lycée Notre-Dame des Oiseaux Lycée Passy-Saint-Honoré Saint-Jean-de-Passy Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague Lycée Sainte-Thérèse Kingsworth International School

17th	Lycée Carnot Lycée Honoré-de-Balzac (EN) École internationale bilingue-Étoile Ensemble scolaire Sainte-Ursule Ensemble scolaire Saint-Michel Lycée Gaston-Tenoudji Svenska Skolan Paris Szkoła Narodowa Polska w Paryżu

18th	Lycée François-Rabelais Lycée Belliard Lycée Suzanne Valadon Lycée Edmond Rostand Lycée technologique d'Arts appliqués Auguste-Renoir (FR) Lycée Charles-de-Foucauld Collège lycée Sinaï

19th	Lycée polyvalent d'Alembert Lycée Diderot (FR) Lycée Georges-Brassens Lycée Henri-Bergson (FR) Lycée Jacquard École Lucien-de-Hirsch (FR) Institutions scolaires du Beth Loubavitch Lycée l'Initiative Lycée Jules-Richard Lycée N'R Hatorah

20th	Lycée Hélène-Boucher (FR) Lycée Maurice-Ravel (FR) Lycée Charles-de-Gaulle Lycée Beth Yacov Lycée Heikhal Menahem Sinaï

Former schools	Lycée professionnel Mariano-Fortuny (17th) Lycée Jean-Quarré (19th)

This list is incomplete. Some international schools serving expatriates in the Paris region are in surrounding areas: See International schools in France

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