List of Lycée Louis-le-Grand people

This page lists members of Lycée Louis-le-Grand, under the institution's successive identities including as Collège de Clermont from 1563 to 1682. It includes alumni, faculty, and administrators. Where available, it indicates the period when the individual was active at Louis-le-Grand. In each section, individuals are listed by chronological order of birthdate, which largely correlates with chronological order of presence at Louis-le-Grand.

The list does not include individuals who studied or taught in other educational institutions that later merged into Louis-le-Grand or into whose former premises Louis-le-Grand expanded. Such cases include names that are occasionally but questionably referred to as Louis-le-Grand alumni, e.g. Cyrano de Bergerac, Racine, Boileau, Charles Perrault and Rousseau at the Collège de Beauvais, or Turgot and Lafayette at the Collège du Plessis [fr].

Alumni

Writers, philosophers and social scientists

Writers and poets

Charles de Saint-Évremond (1613–1703) in the 1620s
Bussy-Rabutin (1618–1693) in the early 1630s
Jean de Santeul (1630–1697) in the 1640s
Pierre-Robert de Cideville (1693–1776) around 1710
Jean-Jacques Lefranc de Pompignan (1709–1784) in the 1720s
Marquis de Sade (1740–1814) in 1750–1754
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) in 1816–1818
Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) in 1820
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) in 1836–1839
Octave Feuillet (1821–1890) in the 1830s
Paul Bourget (1852–1935) ca. late 1860s
Romain Rolland (1866–1944) in the mid-1880s; Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915
Léon Daudet (1867–1942) in the early 1880s
Paul Claudel (1868–1955) in 1882–1885
Paul Fort (1872–1960) in the 1880s
Charles Péguy (1873–1914) part-time in 1891–1894
Valery Larbaud (1881–1957) in the 1890s
Alain-Fournier (1886–1914) in 1906–1907
Jean Guéhenno (1890–1978) in 1910–1911
Joseph Kessel (1898–1979) in the 1910s
Jacques Rigaut (1898–1929) in the mid-1910s
Pierre-Henri Simon (1903–1972) ca. 1921–1923
Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001) in the late 1920s
Maurice Bardèche (1907–1998) in 1922–1928
Phạm Duy Khiêm (1908–1974) ca. 1929–1931
Robert Merle (1908–2004) ca. late 1920ssist
René Étiemble (1909–2002) ca. 1927–1929
Robert Brasillach (1909–1945) in 1925–1928
Henri Queffélec (1910–1992) in the late 1920s
Paul Guth (1910–1997) ca. late 1920s
Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) in 1931–1935
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) ca. 1931–1934
Maurice Druon (1918–2009) in the late 1930s
Michel Butor (1926–2016) in the 1940s
Claude Esteban (1935–2006) ca. mid-1950s
Jean-Loup Dabadie (1938–2020) in the 1950s
Régis Debray (1940) in the late 1950s
Olivier Rolin (1947) ca. mid-1960s
Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948) in 1966–1968
Frédéric Beigbeder (1965) in the early 1980s

Philosophers

Voltaire (1694–1778) in 1704–1711
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) around 1729–1732
Julien Benda (1867–1956) in the early 1880s
Jean Wahl (1888–1974) ca. 1906–1907
Jean Guitton (1901–1999) in 1919–1920
Jean Cavaillès (1903–1944) in 1920–1923
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) in 1922–1924; Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964
Maurice de Gandillac (1906–2006) ca. 1922–1924
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) in the 1920s
Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) ca. early 1940s
Bertrand Poirot-Delpech (1929–2006) in the 1940s
Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) in 1949–1952
Alain Badiou (1937) in the mid-1950s
Alain de Benoist (1943) ca. early 1960s
Georges Chapouthier (1945) ca. early 1960s
Philippe-Joseph Salazar (1955) 1973–1975
Souleymane Bachir Diagne (1955) in the mid-1970s

Linguists, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, economists

Émile Littré (1801–1881) in the 1810s
Eugène Burnouf (1801–1852) in the 1810s
Jean-Barthélemy Hauréau (1812–1896) in the 1820s
Frédéric Passy (1822–1912) ca. 1833–1835; Nobel Peace Prize in 1901
Charles Barbier de Meynard (1826–1908) ca. mid-1840s
Gaston Maspero (1846–1916) in the early 1860s
Auguste Angellier (1848–1911) ca. 1865–1866
Ferdinand Brunetière (1849–1906) in the late 1860s
Émile Durkheim (1858–1917) in the late 1870s
Georges Goyau (1869–1939) in the late 1870s
André Lichtenberger (1870–1940) in the 1880s
Joseph Vendryes (1875–1960) around 1890
Marc Bloch (1886–1944) ca. 1900–1904
Émile-Guillaume Léonard (1891–1961) ca. 1908–1911
Georges Dumézil (1898–1986) ca. 1914–1916
Henri Laoust (1905–1983) in the early 1920s
Maurice Allais (1911–2010) in 1930–1931; Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1988
Jacqueline de Romilly (1913–2010) ca. 1931–1933
Jean-Henri Azéma (1913–2000) in the mid-1930s
Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914–2007) in the early 1930s
Jacques Le Goff (1924–2014) in the early 1940s
Lucien Bianco (1930) ca. 1951–1952
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) in 1948–1951
Claude Hagège (1936) in 1953–1955
Alexandre Adler (1950) in the late 1960s
Thomas Piketty (1971) ca. 1987–1989

Artists

Playwrights, actors and filmmakers

Molière (1622–1673) possibly in the early 1640s
Georges Méliès (1861–1938) in the late 1870s
René Clair (1898–1981) in the mid-1910s
Michel Cournot (1922–2007) in the late 1930s
Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933–2021) in the early 1950s
Patrice Chéreau (1944–2013) in the early 1960s
André Weinfeld (1947) ca. mid-1960s
Jérôme Deschamps (1947) in the 1960s

Visual artists

Théodore Géricault (1791–1824) in 1806–1810
Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) in 1806–1815
Edgar Degas (1834–1917) in 1845–1853
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834–1904) in 1843–1851
Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894) in the late 1850s (in Vanves)
François Flameng (1856–1923) ca. early 1870s
Lucien Simon (1861–1945) in the 1870s
Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) in the 1880s
François Tuefferd (1912–1996) around 1920

Composers

Fabien Lévy (1968) in the 1980s

Scientists

René Castel (1758–1832) in the 1770s
Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774–1862) ca. 1780–1791
Michel Chasles (1793–1880) in 1809–1812
Gabriel Lamé (1795–1870) ca. 1810–1814
Arthur Morin (1795–1880) ca. 1810–1813
Irénée-Jules Bienaymé (1796–1878) ca. 1812–1815
Évariste Galois (1811–1832) in 1823–1829
Paul-Quentin Desains (1817–1885) ca. 1830–1835
Charles Hermite (1822–1901) in 1840–1842
Étienne-Émile Desvaux (1830–1854) ca. 1843–1847
Alphonse Laveran (1845–1922) ca. 1860–1863; Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1907
Eugène Goblet d'Alviella (1846–1925) ca. 1862–1865
Henri Becquerel (1852–1908) ca. 1868–1872; Nobel Prize in Physics in 1870
Alfred Binet (1857–1911) ca. mid-1870s
Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963) in the late 1870s and early 1880s
Félix d'Hérelle (1873–1949) around 1890
Jean Becquerel (1878–1953) in the 1890s
Louis Leprince-Ringuet (1901–2000) in the 1910s
Étienne Wolff (1904–1996) in the early 1920s
Jean Bernard (1907–2006) in the early 1920s
Laurent Schwartz (1915–2002) in 1932–1934; Fields Medal 1950
Yves Colin de Verdière (1933) ca. early 1960s
Serge Haroche (1944) ca. 1960–1963; Nobel Prize in Physics in 2012
Olivier Faugeras (1949) ca. 1969–1971
Gilles Pisier (1950) in 1967–1969
Pierre-Louis Lions (1956) in 1973–1975; Fields Medal 1994
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957–2016) ca. 1971–1975; Fields Medal 1994
Laurent Lafforgue (1966) in the mid-1980s; Fields Medal 2002
Cédric Villani (1973) in 1990–1992; Fields Medal 2010

Statesmen and politicians

French heads of state and/or government

Cardinal de Fleury (1653–1743), de facto first minister 1726–1743, at LLG ca. 1659–1665
René Nicolas de Maupeou (1714–1792), chief minister 1770–1774, around 1730
Maximilien de Robespierre (1758–1794), leader of the revolutionary government 1793–1794, in 1769–1781
Paul Deschanel (1855–1922), President of the Republic in 1920, ca. 1865–1871
Alexandre Millerand (1859–1943), President of the Republic 1920–1924, ca. 1875
Raymond Poincaré (1860–1934), President of the Republic 1913–1920, ca. late 1870s
Paul Painlevé (1863–1933), Prime Minister in 1917 and 1925, in 1877–1883
Pierre Mendès France (1907–1982), President of the Council 1954–1955, ca. 1923^[1]
Maurice Couve de Murville (1907–1999), Prime Minister 1968–1969, ca. early 1920s
Alain Poher (1909–1996), acting President of the Republic in 1969 and 1974, ca. late 1920s
Georges Pompidou (1911–1974), President of the Republic 1969–1974, ca. 1929–1931
Michel Debré (1912–1996), Prime Minister 1959–1962, around 1930
Pierre Messmer (1916–2007), Prime Minister 1972–1974, ca. early 1930s
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926–2020), President of the Republic 1974–1981, ca. 1940–1946
Michel Rocard (1930–2016), Prime Minister 1988–1991, ca. mid-1940s
Jacques Chirac (1932–2019), President of the Republic 1995–2002, ca. 1949–1951
Alain Juppé (1945), Prime Minister 1995–1997, in 1962–1964
Laurent Fabius (1946), Prime Minister 1984–1986, ca. 1964–1966

Heads of state and/or government in other countries

Nicholas I of Montenegro (1841–1921), first and last King of Montenegro 1910–1918, at LLG ca. late 1850s
Milan I of Serbia (1854–1901), King of Serbia 1882–1889, ca. 1861–1868
Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001), first President of Senegal 1960–1980, ca. 1929–1931
Paul Biya (1933), President of Cameroon since 1982, in the 1950s

Other prominent politicians and public servants

Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (1629–1666), in the 1640s^[2]
Étienne François, duc de Choiseul (1719–1785), secretary of state, at LLG ca. 1729-1730^[3]
Cardinal de Bernis (1715–1794), diplomat and author, around 1730
Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737–1832), signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence, in the early 1750s
Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron (1754–1802), revolutionary leader, in the 1770s
Camille Desmoulins (1760–1794), revolutionary leader, in the 1770s
Victor Schœlcher (1804–1893), leading French abolitionist, in 1818–1819
Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys (1805–1881), foreign affairs minister, in the 1820s
Eugène Belgrand (1810–1878), public works leader, ca. 1828–1829
Émile Beaussire (1824–1889), deputy and philosopher, ca. early 1840s
Henry Adrian Churchill (1828–1886), British explorer and diplomat, in 1841–1846
Paul d'Estournelles de Constant (1852–1924), diplomat, in 1862–1870; Nobel Peace Prize in 1909
Jean Jaurès (1859–1914), founding president of the French Socialist Party, in the mid-1870s
Maurice Papon (1910–2007), French minister, in the 1920s
Edgard Pisani (1918–2016), French minister and European Commissioner, in 1939
Jacques de Larosière (1929), central banker, in the late 1940s
Jean Tiberi (1935), Mayor of Paris 1995–2001, in the early 1950s
Aziz Mekouar (1950), Moroccan diplomat, around 1970
Jean-Marie Le Guen (1953), junior minister, in the early 1970s
Thierry Breton (1955), French minister and European Commissioner, in 1972–1975
Ridha Grira (1955), Tunisian minister, ca. 1974–1976
Božidar Đelić (1965), Serbian Finance Minister 2001–2003, in 1980–1984

Business leaders

Louis Hachette (1800–1864), founder of Hachette (publisher), ca. 1815–1819
Eugène Goüin (1818–1909), cofounder and later chairman of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, in the 1830s
André Michelin (1853–1931), co-founder of Michelin, in the early 1870s
André Citroën (1878–1935), founder of Citroën, ca. 1896–1898
Michel Pébereau (1942), builder of BNP Paribas, around 1960
Jean-Charles Naouri (1949), owner of Groupe Casino, ca. 1965–1967
Jean-Sébastien Jacques (1971), CEO of Rio Tinto, ca. 1990–1994

Religious figures

Saint Francis de Sales (1567–1622) in 1578–1588
Pierre de Bérulle (1575–1629) ca. 1591–1595
Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz (1613–1679) in 1625–1631
Claude Poullart des Places (1679–1709) in the early 1700s
John Dubois (1764–1842) ca. 1773–1785
Dalil Boubakeur (1940) ca. 1957–1959
Philippe Jourdan (1960) ca. late 1970s

Military leaders and resistance fighters

Charles François Dumouriez (1739–1823) in the 1750s
Louis Vallin (1770–1854) ca. late 1780s / early 1790s
Maxime Weygand (1867–1965) in the early 1880s
Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves (1901–1941) in 1919–1921
Pierre Brossolette (1903–1944) ca. 1921–1922
Jacques Lusseyran (1924–1971) in 1940–1943
Thomas Elek (1924–1944) ca. 1940–1941

Other notable alumni

Ernest Malinowski (1818–1899), Polish civil engineer, in 1832–1834
Arthur Chassériau (1850–1934), art collector, ca. late 1860s / early 1870s
Jacques Vergès (1926), lawyer, ca. 1936–1940
Jacques Frémontier (1930–2020), journalist and television producer, ca. mid-1940s
Gaston Juchet (1930–2007), engineer, ca. early 1950s
Claude Ribbe (1954), activist and filmmaker, ca. early 1960s
Philippe Boisse (1955), fencer, ca. early 1970s

Faculty

Juan Maldonado (1533–1583)
Juan de Mariana (1536–1624)
Francisco Suárez (1548–1617)
Philippe Labbe (1607–1667)
René Rapin (1621–1687)
Ignace-Gaston Pardies (1636–1673)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704)
Charles de La Rue (1643–1725)
René-Joseph de Tournemine (1661–1739)
Claude Buffier (1661–1737)
Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (1674–1743)
Charles Porée (1675–1741)
Pierre Brumoy (1688–1742)
Charles Pierre Chapsal (1787–1858)
Anatole Bailly (1833–1911)
Henri Théophile Bocquillon (1834–1884)
Jean Gaston Darboux (1842–1917)
Auguste Burdeau (1851–1894)
Jules Combarieu (1859–1916)
Gustave Belot (1859–1929)
Lucien Poincaré (1862–1920)
Joseph Bédier (1864–1938)
André Bellessort (1866–1942)
Henri Abraham (1868–1943)
Félicien Challaye (1875–1967)
Étienne Weill-Raynal (1887–1982)
Jean Guéhenno (1890–1978)
Georges Bidault (1899–1983)
Ferdinand Alquié (1906–1985)
Charles Pellat (1914–1992)
Robert Misrahi (1926–2023)
Philippe Contamine (1932)
André Warusfel (1936–2016)
Donald Adamson (1939)
Roger Chartier (1945)
Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995)

Administrators

Jesuit rectors

This list is mainly based on the monography published in 1845 by Gustave Émond.^[4]^{: 281–289}

Ponce Cogordan (c.1563-1564)
Edmund Hay (c.1564-1575)
Pierre-Claude Mathieu (c.1575-1579)
Odon Pigenat (c.1580-1581)
Jean Sangenot (c.1582-1583)
Alexandre Georges (c.1584-1593)
Pierre Barny (1606)
François Thyal (1607)
Jean-Baptiste de Machault (c.1608-1613)
Charles de la Tour (c.1613-1617)
Jacques Sirmond (c.1617-1621)
Jean Filleau (c.1622-1625 and 1630)
Ignace Armand (c.1626-1629)
Étienne Binet (c.1631-1633)
Louis Malrat (c.1634)
Jacques Dinet (c.1635-1638)
Julien Hayneufve [fr] (c.1639-1646)
Étienne Noël (c.1646-1649)
Charles Lallemant (c.1649-1650 and 1660–1662)
Jean-Baptiste Ragon (c.1651-1654)
Philippe Shahu (c.1655-1657)
Claude Boucher (c.1658-1659)
Étienne Agard de Champs (c.1663-1667, 1682–1683, and 1687–1690)
Jean de Turmenie (c.1668-1670)
Pierre de Verthamon (c.1671-1673)
Jean Pinette (c.1674-1677)
Jacques Pallu (1678–1681)
Jacques le Picart (c.1683-1686 and 1702–1704)
Guillaume Ayrault (or Hurault) (c.1690-1693)
Pierre Pommereau (c.1694-1697)
Julien Baudran (c.1698-1699)
Isaac Martineau (c.1700-1701)
Michel Le Tellier [fr] (ca. 1705)
Henri-Charles Forcet (c.1706-1708)
Charles Dauchez (c.1709-1711)
Louis-François Clavyer (c.1712-1714)
Louis Labbe (c.1715-1717)
Honoré Gaillard (c.1718-1720)
Jacques-Philippe Lallemant (c.1720)
François de Richebourg (c.1721-1723)
François de Canappeville (c.1724-1726)
Jean-Baptiste Bellingan (c.1727-1730)
Jacques de Guenonville (c.1731-1733)
Jean Lavant or Lavaux (c.1734-1737)
Etienne Frogerais (c.1738-1740)
Martin de Fontenelle (c.1741-1743)
Joachim de la Grandville (c.1744-1748)
Louis Le Gallic (c.1749-1751)
Mathurin Germain Le Forestier (1752–1754)
François de Saint-Jean (c.1754-1755)
Mathieu-Jean-Joseph Allanic (c.1756-1759)
Etienne de la Croix (c.1760)
Henri Frelaut (c.1761-1762)

Principals

Abbé Gardin du Mesnil (1764–1770)
Abbé Poignard (1770–1778)
Denis Bérardier (1778–1788)
Jean-Louis Romet (1788–1791)
Jean-François Champagne (1791–1808)

Provisors

Jean-François Champagne (1808–1810)
Louis-Joseph de Sermand (1810–1815)
Louis Gabriel Taillefer (1815–1819).^[5]
François Christophe Malleval (1819–1823)^[6]
Nicolas Bertot or Berthot (1823–1824)
Pierre-Laurent Laborie (1824–1830)
Jules Amable Pierrot-Deseilligny (1830–1845)^[7]
Jacques Rinn [fr] (1845–1853)
Bernard Forneron (1853–1856)^[8]
Jean-Baptiste Antoine Jullien (1856–1864)^[5]
Frédéric Jules Edmond Didier (1864–1868)
Julien Girard (1868–1878)^[9]
Charles Gidel [fr] (1878–1892)
Désiré Blanchet [fr] (1892–1895)
Alexandre Gazeau [fr] (1895–1909)
Georges Ferté (1909–1929)
Émile Abry (1929–1931)
Émile Berrod (1931–1938)
Lucien Chattelun (1938–1941)
Camille Gibelin (1941–1955)
Mr Boyé (1942–1944, acting)
Raymond Schiltz (1955–1968)
Albert Praud (1968–1969)
Paul Deheuvels (1969–1991)
Yves de Saint-Do (1991–1997)
Joël Vallat (1997–2012)^[10]
Michel Bouchaud (2012–2015)^[11]
Jean Bastianelli (2015–2020)^[12]
Joël Bianco (since 2020)

References

^ Raymond Krakovitch (2013). "Mendès France Pierre, Isaac, Isidore". Le Maitron.
^ Étienne Faisant (2020), "Les hôtels des princes de Conti à Paris (1660-1751)", Livraisons d'Histoire de l'Architecture, 40 (40): 11–22, doi:10.4000/lha.1252
^ Annie Brierre (1986), Le Duc de Choiseul : La France sous Louis XV (PDF), Paris: Albatros, p. 15
^ Gustave Émond (1845). Histoire du College de Louis-le-Grand: ancien college des Jésuites a Paris, depuis sa fondation jusqu'en 1830. Paris: Durant & Loisel.
^ ^a ^b Isabelle Havelange; Françoise Huguet; Bernadette Lebedeff-Choppin (1986). "TAILLEFER Louis Gabriel". Les inspecteurs généraux de l'Instruction publique. Dictionnaire biographique 1802-1914. Paris: Institut national de recherche pédagogique. pp. 619–620.
^ "François Christophe Malleval". Pages.textesrares.com. 12 May 2020.
^ "Jules Amable Pierrot-Deseilligny". Pages.textesrares.com. 12 May 2020.
^ "Bernard Forneron". Pages.textesrares.com. November 2017.
^ "Le professeur Roubaud (1877-1951) à Louis-le-Grand, la khâgne des années folles (II)". devirisillustribusblog. 6 May 2018.
^ Olivier Rollot (26 January 2011). "Entrer en prépa : un entretien avec Joël Vallat, proviseur du lycée Louis-le-Grand, à Paris". orientation.blog.lemonde.fr.
^ Fabrice Acquilina (7 February 2016). "Michel Bouchaud, ancien proviseur du lycée Louis-le-Grand (2012-2015) : « Nous allons former les élites de la région". lexpress.mu.
^ Céline Carez (26 May 2016). "Paris : dans le secret de l'entrée à Henri-IV et Louis-le-Grand". leparisien.fr.

[1] Raymond Krakovitch (2013). "Mendès France Pierre, Isaac, Isidore". Le Maitron.

[2] Étienne Faisant (2020), "Les hôtels des princes de Conti à Paris (1660-1751)", Livraisons d'Histoire de l'Architecture, 40 (40): 11–22, doi:10.4000/lha.1252

[3] Annie Brierre (1986), Le Duc de Choiseul : La France sous Louis XV (PDF), Paris: Albatros, p. 15

[Emond-4] Gustave Émond (1845). Histoire du College de Louis-le-Grand: ancien college des Jésuites a Paris, depuis sa fondation jusqu'en 1830. Paris: Durant & Loisel.

[HHBL-5] Isabelle Havelange; Françoise Huguet; Bernadette Lebedeff-Choppin (1986). "TAILLEFER Louis Gabriel". Les inspecteurs généraux de l'Instruction publique. Dictionnaire biographique 1802-1914. Paris: Institut national de recherche pédagogique. pp. 619–620.

[6] "François Christophe Malleval". Pages.textesrares.com. 12 May 2020.

[7] "Jules Amable Pierrot-Deseilligny". Pages.textesrares.com. 12 May 2020.

[8] "Bernard Forneron". Pages.textesrares.com. November 2017.

[9] "Le professeur Roubaud (1877-1951) à Louis-le-Grand, la khâgne des années folles (II)". devirisillustribusblog. 6 May 2018.

[10] Olivier Rollot (26 January 2011). "Entrer en prépa : un entretien avec Joël Vallat, proviseur du lycée Louis-le-Grand, à Paris". orientation.blog.lemonde.fr.

[11] Fabrice Acquilina (7 February 2016). "Michel Bouchaud, ancien proviseur du lycée Louis-le-Grand (2012-2015) : « Nous allons former les élites de la région". lexpress.mu.

[12] Céline Carez (26 May 2016). "Paris : dans le secret de l'entrée à Henri-IV et Louis-le-Grand". leparisien.fr.

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