Lycée Gabriel-Faure, Historic high school in France

The Lycée Gabriel-Faure occupies a site on place Stéphane-Mallarmé in central Tournon-sur-Rhône. Its buildings include a chapel in classical Jesuit style, built from 1673 to 1720 to plans by the Lyon architect Martellenge, a tapestry gallery, and the Honoré d'Urfé library. The entrance portal, the park and the chapel are protected as monuments historiques.

Founded in 1536 by Cardinal François II de Tournon as the Collège de Tournon, it became a university of philosophy and the seven liberal arts in 1548 and passed to the Jesuits in 1561. It was an École Royale Militaire from 1776, became a lycée in 1848, and took the name Lycée Gabriel-Faure in 1967.

The school is named after the writer Gabriel Faure (1877-1962), a native of Tournon, not the composer Gabriel Fauré. Its library, called Honoré d'Urfé, holds 10,000 to 15,000 volumes, including a second edition of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie and the complete Description de l'Égypte. A gallery of tapestries is also kept on site.

The school is a working secondary institution, so the buildings and grounds are not open to casual visitors; the entrance portal, the park and the chapel are the parts protected as monuments historiques. The address is place Stéphane-Mallarmé in the centre of Tournon-sur-Rhône, close to the town's historic core.

The school's library, named Honoré d'Urfé, holds between 10,000 and 15,000 volumes, including a complete set of the Description de l'Égypte kept since 2013 in a purpose-built cabinet. In 1888, when twelve crates of books were about to be sent to the University of Lyon, the people of Tournon protested and blocked the transfer; about 3,000 of the oldest volumes had already left and remain in Lyon's libraries.