Lycée Michelet (Vanves)



Lycée Michelet (Michelet High school), is an establishment located in Vanves (Hauts-de-Seine), bringing together middle school, general education high school and classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles in buildings classified as Monument historique (historical monuments) and surrounded by a park of 17 hectares. It originated from the 1853 establishment of the "Petit collège of Lycée Louis-le-Grand".

Professors

 * Jean Poperen (politician, deputy),
 * Maurice Druon (writer, author of The Accursed Kings, academician, former Minister of Cultural Affairs),
 * Pierre Chaunu (history and geography) from 1951 to 1956,
 * Émile Schuffenecker (drawing)
 * Jean-Paul Coche (olympic athlete)

Students

 * Jean Aujame (artist),
 * Francis Blanche (actor and comedian),
 * Pierre Bonnard (artist),
 * Jean Borotra (Davis Cup winner),
 * Francis Bouygues (founder of Bouygues),
 * Albin Chalandon (former french minister of housing),
 * Jean-Claude Chermann (scientist, co-discover of HIV virus),
 * Jean Dausset (biologist, Nobel Prize winner),
 * Jean-Paul Delahaye (computer scientist and mathematician),
 * Robert Delaunay, 1885-1941, (artist),
 * Paul Deschanel (Former president of France),
 * Alexandre Millerand (lawyer and former president of France),
 * Dieudonné M'bala M'bala (comedian),
 * Maurice Donnay (French playwright),
 * Maurice Druon (French writer and academician),
 * Jean Glavany (former minister of agriculture, deputy for the Hautes Pyrénées),
 * Fernand Gregh (poet).
 * Hector Guimard (architect),
 * Victor Hugo (writer)
 * René Huyghe (professor at the Collège de France and member of the French Academy),
 * Jacques Maillot (businessman) (entrepreneur, founder of the Nouvelles Frontières company),
 * Jean-Michel Jarre (musician),
 * Serge Lama (singer),
 * Robert Merle (writer, Prix Goncourt 1949),
 * Georges Méliès (inventor of the first special effects in the cinema),
 * Serge Moati (journalist, writer, television host, actor, director, screenwriter, producer),
 * Hervé Novelli (French politician),
 * Gaston Palewski (former Minister of Scientific Research and President of the Constitutional Council (France)),
 * Jean-François Parot (diplomat and writer),
 * Michel Pastoureau (medieval historian),
 * Émile Picard (French mathematician and academician),
 * Maurice Ronet (actor, writer and director),
 * Mohammad Zaher Shah (last king of Afghanistan)
 * Eugene H. Trinh (physicist and NASA astronaut),
 * André Truong Trong Thi (creator of the first microcomputer in the world (1973), inventor of the first electronic archiving system),
 * Maxime Weygand (general and academician),
 * Jean-Pierre Melville (director and screenwriter)