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Histoire de Paris

Lycée Condorcet

Brongniart, architecte du palais de la Bourse édifie en 1780 pour l’ordre des frères Capucins un nouveau couvent situé alors au milieu des jardins et des cultures maraîchères. Les deux pavillons entourant la façade abritaient, à gauche la chapelle (œvenue église Saint-Louis d’Antin) et à droit le parloir des moines. Vendu cómme bien national en 1792, le couvent devint successivement imprimerie puis hopital avant d’être racheté en 1803 par l’Etat pour y instal’er un lycée baptisé, au gré des régimes politiques, lycée Bonaparte (1803) Bourbon (1815) Fontanes (1874) et enfin Condurcet (1883) Du couvent demeure le cloitre intact, atrium dorique d’une austère simplicité: visible depuis la porte centrale de la facade, il sert aujourd’hui de cour au lycée. Dans ce quartier qui connut son plein développement au XIXe siècle avec la construction de la gare Saint-Lazare et des grands magaşins, le lycée Condorcet a vu passer Théodre de Banville, Jean-Jacques Ampère, Alexandre Dumas fils, Edmond et Jules de Goncourt, Nadar, Eugène Sue, Sadi Carnot, Mallermé, Verlaine, Sully Prudhomme, Marcel Proust, Haussmann, le duc de Morny, Henri Monnier

One of the series of signs describing historical places in Paris. The signs were placed starting in 1992 and are also called sucettes Starck (Starck’s Lollipops) after Philippe Starck who designed them.

The sign depicts the Condorcet school, one of the oldest and most prestigious schools in Paris. The school that was established in 1803 was attended by French prime ministers, well-known industrialists such as Renault and Citroen, intellectuals such as Marcel Proust, Jean Cocteau actors such as Louis de Funès, Serge Gainsbourg, artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec and more.

The school was photographed on the same day Click for a larger image

The place is also defined as a historical heritage site of France, as can be seen in the sign that appears in the enlarged image (bottom left) Click for a larger image

Translation of the text on the sign:

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History of Paris

Condorcet High School
Brongniart, architect of the Palais de la Bourse, built a new convent in 1780 for the order of the Capuchin brothers, located in the middle of gardens and market gardens. The two pavilions surrounding the facade housed the chapel on the left (in the Saint-Louis d’Antin church) and the monks’ parlor on the right. Sold as national property in 1792, the convent successively became a printing house then a hospital before being bought in 1803 by the State to install a high school there, named, according to the political regimes, Lycée Bonaparte (1803) Bourbon (1815) Fontanes (1874) and finally Condurcet (1883) The cloister remains intact from the convent, a Doric atrium of austere simplicity: visible from the central door of the façade, it today serves as a courtyard for the high school. In this district which experienced its full development in the 19th century with the construction of the Saint-Lazare station and large stores, the Condorcet high school saw Théodre de Banville, Jean-Jacques Ampère, Alexandre Dumas fils, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Nadar, Eugène Sue, Sadi Carnot, Mallermé, Verlaine, Sully Prudhomme, Marcel Proust, Haussmann, the Duke of Morny, Henri Monnier