Notre Dame de Mongré High School, Private Catholic high school in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France.
Notre Dame de Mongré is a private Catholic school offering classes from elementary through secondary levels in multiple buildings on Avenue Saint-Exupéry. The campus provides classrooms and common areas for around 2,000 students.
The school was founded in 1848 by Mademoiselle de La Barmondière as a Jesuit institution under the Lyon Archdiocese. Over time it developed into a major educational center for the region.
Students are called "Mongréens", and the school motto is "Christo in adolescentibus". A wordplay motto, "Le gré de Dieu, mon gré !", also circulates. The Petits Chanteurs de Mongré choir, founded in 1998 by Vincent Coiffet, gathers about fifty pupils and is affiliated with the Pueri Cantores federation; in 2019 John Rutter conducted them with two other choirs in Lyon.
The buildings, designed by architect M. Bresson, were erected between 1851 and 1853, and the great chapel was completed on 25 May 1865. The site was partly listed as a monument historique in 2019. The entrance on Avenue Saint-Exupéry is reached by a paved path across the lawn, under the stone archway with its relief sculpture.
The school's choir, the Petits Chanteurs de Mongré, was founded in 1998 by Vincent Coiffet and numbers about fifty pupils from the collège and lycée. Affiliated with the Pueri Cantores federation, it sang under John Rutter at a Lyon concert in 2019.
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