Lycée Hoche
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| Lycée Hoche | |
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| Versailles, France | |
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| Established | 1803 |
| Website | http://lyc-hoche.net/ |
The Lycée Hoche is a public secondary school located in Versailles, not very far away from the famous Palace of Versailles. Formerly it was a nunnery founded by French queen Maria Leszczyńska. However after the French Revolution it became a school in 1803. At the age of 85, the school was named Lycée Hoche after the French general Lazare Hoche who was born in Versailles.
Together with Lycée Henri-IV, Lycée Louis-Le-Grand, Lycée Stanislas and Lycée Sainte Geneviève, the Lycée Hoche is one of the most prestigious school in France for undergraduate education. Each year scores of students coming from its preparatory classes are admitted in French most renowned graduate schools such as the Ecole Polytechnique, the Ecole Normale Supérieure and HEC Paris.
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[edit] Famous alumni
- Raymond Aron
- Henri Cartan (Wolf Prize recipient)
- Pierre Clostermann
- Jean-Marie Colombani
- Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin
- Louis Franchet d'Espérey
- Louis Halphen
- Jules Antoine Lissajous
- Charles Mangin
- Philippe Morillon
- Jean-Cyril Spinetta
- alternative rock Phoenix (band)
- Boris Vian
- Wendelin Werner (Fields medalist)
