Collège Stanislas de Paris, Private school in Paris, France
Collège Stanislas de Paris is a private Catholic school on Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs in the 6th arrondissement, with over 3,000 pupils from preschool to classes préparatoires. Its buildings mix older structures, such as the Louis XVI colonnade of the Hôtel de Silène, with 1960s constructions by Jacques Barge.
Three priests led by Abbé Claude Liautard opened a boys' school on Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs on 15 August 1804. Recognised as a full college in 1821, it was renamed in 1822 after Stanisław Leszczyński, great-grandfather of Louis XVIII. It moved to its current site in 1847, and former pupils kept it open when it nearly closed.
The school's motto, "French without fear, Christian without reproach," was instituted by Abbé Louis de Lagarde, director from 1871 to 1884. Religious education, once held on Wednesdays, moved to Saturdays after the Jules Ferry Laws of 1882. Since 1992 the school has been coeducational, and parents may choose mixed or single-sex classes for the first four years of secondary school.
The school stands at 22 Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, with entrances at 6 and 28 Rue du Montparnasse. Two of its doors were listed as historical monuments in 1926, and other parts of the building in 1966.
The school's motto, "French without fear, Christian without reproach", was instituted by Abbé Louis de Lagarde, director from 1871 to 1884, and echoes the knight Bayard. An alumni association founded in 1865 has owned the school since 1903. Charles de Gaulle studied here.
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