Pensionnat des Frères des écoles chrétiennes à Passy

The Pensionnat des Frères des écoles chrétiennes à Passy was a boarding school for boys located in the present-day 16th arrondissement of Paris and active between 1839 and 1905.

History
In January 1837, the Brothers of the Christian Schools opened a boarding school for boys at 165Rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin, which they transferred on 8 April 1839 to Passy (at the time a commune on the outskirts of Paris), in specially-built facilities and ones of the allotted Hôtel de Valentinois which they had possibly preserved. In the following decades, the Brothers rebuilt some of the school's facilities and expanded other ones, as the number of boarders kept growing, despite a decrease during the French Revolution of 1848. The school buildings bordered eventually, if not from the day of its opening in Passy, all of the segment of present-day Rue Raynouard running from the corner of present-day Rue Singer to that of Rue des Vignes.

On 18 March 1864, the school (having over 700 pupils then) was visited by Minister of Education Victor Duruy, who complimented the Brothers "in the most flattering terms upon the appearance and tendency of the pensionnat". Another ministerial visit took place on 12 May of the same year, "caused by the resistance to the projet de loi for special instruction which was manifested in the parliamentary commission which had been appointed to examine the subject. To overcome this opposition M. Duruy invited the members of the commission to accompany him to Passy, in order to demonstrate to them, as he expressed it, the successful realization of his project by the Christian Brothers."

As a law of 7 July 1904 prevented religious congregations from teaching any longer, the Brothers moved their boarding school's residence to Froyennes, Belgium in 1905. They would be selling off approximately three quarters of the boarding school's buildings in Passy. An association of fathers took advantage of the ones unsold yet disused to recreate a school, which was granted diocesan tutelage by Archbishop Léon-Adolphe Amette in 1911, and became known as "le Pensionnat diocésain de Passy".

Boarders

 * Stéphane Mallarmé (between 6 or 9 October 1852 and March 1855)

Professors

 * Adrien Limagne