Lycée Marie-Curie, High school in Sceaux, France

Lycée Marie-Curie is a mixed departmental cité scolaire in Sceaux housing a collège, a general lycée and classes préparatoires. Its Art Deco buildings, built between 1932 and 1936 by architect Émile Brunet, stand on the site of land once owned by the mathematician Cauchy, between rue Émile-Morel and rue Constant-Pilate, and have been listed on the supplementary inventory of monuments historiques since 2001.

Opened in October 1936 as a girls' school under director Suzanne Forfer, it was inaugurated in June 1937 by education minister Jean Zay, with Irène Joliot-Curie present. From June 1940 to August 1944 the Luftwaffe occupied the building, using classrooms as dormitories and building bunkers linked by underground galleries. It reopened in October 1944 after repairs costing over three million francs, and became mixed in 1971.

The name was assigned by decree in January 1937 because Marie Curie married Pierre Curie in Sceaux in 1895 and lived with him nearby, at what is now 9 and 11 rue Pierre-Curie. Her two Nobel Prizes, in 1903 and 1911, made her a model for girls then barred from most advanced studies.

The school occupies a central block of Sceaux between rue Émile-Morel and rue Constant-Pilate, on the site of a plot once owned by the mathematician Cauchy. It is a working school, so the buildings are not open to visitors; the Art Deco façades and terraces can be seen from the surrounding streets. The RER B station Sceaux is a short walk away.

The school stands on land bought from the Cauchy family estate; the mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy had owned it before the town acquired it in 1931. During the German occupation, anti-aircraft batteries were mounted on the terraces and bunkers were linked to the cellars by underground galleries.