Lycée Jules-Ferry, Historic high school in France
Lycée Jules-Ferry occupies a V-shaped brick and reinforced-concrete complex at 77 boulevard de Clichy, built by architect Pierre Paquet using the Cottancin system, with painted friezes by Camille Boignard and ironwork by Émile Robert. It houses a collège, a lycée and literary preparatory classes.
Opened on 1 October 1913 with 327 pupils and inaugurated on 26 October by Louis Barthou, it replaced the convent of the Dames Zélatrices. From 1917 Anne Amieux, its first headmistress, ran France's first preparatory class for the École centrale open to girls. Boys entered the preparatory classes in the 1960s, and the school became fully coeducational by 1980.
The school appears in Diane Kurys's 1977 film Peppermint Soda (Diabolo menthe). Its literary preparatory classes train students for the entrance exams of the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Mathematics teacher Anna Cartan and principal Anne Amieux shaped its early years.
The school sits at 77 boulevard de Clichy, in the 9th arrondissement, near Place de Clichy. It is a working public school, so visitors see the V-shaped brick buildings from the street rather than entering the grounds.
The school appears in Diane Kurys's 1977 film Peppermint Soda (Diabolo menthe). Its concrete-and-iron frame uses the Cottancin system, patented in 1889, with brick panels reinforced by metal rods.
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