Lycée Pierre-de-Fermat

The Lycée Pierre-de-Fermat, also referred to simply as Pierre-de-Fermat, is a public Lycée, located in the Parvis des Jacobins in Toulouse, in the immediate vicinity of the Place du Capitole; It occupies a large space in the city center including the Hôtel de Bernuy. It adjoins the cloister and the church of the Jacobins.

At the start of the 2021 school year, the high school has 9 second, first and final year classes of an average of 30 students for a total of just over 1,800 students, including 950 students in Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles (CPGE). It hosts one of the best preparatory classes to the grandes écoles program of the country – a post-secondary intensive multidisciplinary program : it ranked 8th nationwide for the literary stream and 3rd nationwide for the physics and engineering stream in 2022.

Notable alumni

 * Suzanne Aigrain, a professor of Astrophysics
 * Pierre Debeaux, polymath architect and geometer
 * Jean Dussourd, a French civil servant
 * Marie-Sophie Lacarrau, a French journalist and TV presenter
 * Robert Miguet, a French civil servant
 * Louis Pailhas, a French public servant
 * Khalilou Sall, a Senegalese politician and engineer
 * Victor Ségoffin, a French sculptor
 * Carlos Tavares, a Portuguese businessman
 * Jean-Michel Vernhes, a French public servant
 * Georges Pompidou, a former French president