Lycée Fénelon, Paris, High school in Paris, France
Lycée Fénelon is a prestigious public secondary school located in the Latin Quarter of Paris, France.
The school opened in 1883 in the 18th-century Hôtel de Villayer, whose last owner sold it to the State that year, making it the first girls' high school in Paris. It prepared pupils for the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles at Sèvres until 1940; the two ENS merged in 1985. It became coeducational in 1968 for the preparatory classes and in 1979 for the lycée.
The name honours François Fénelon, archbishop of Cambrai and author of the Traité de l'éducation des filles. The Société des agrégées, an association of women agrégées, was founded here in 1920, with Fénelon teacher Élisabeth Butiaux as its first president. Alumni include Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil and Nathalie Sarraute.
The school offers both general and technological baccalaureate programs.
In 1974 the lycée was one of 58 French secondary schools chosen for a Ministry of Education computing experiment, using a Télémécanique T1600 minicomputer and the LSE programming language in an after-school club.
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