The Collège Sévigné is a French

France

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 non-denominational private school

Private school

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It is ranked 2nd in the city and 19th in the country by a french weekly magazine.

The school was founded in 1880 by Mathilde Salomon, becoming the first French non-denominational high school for young women, two months before the vote of the "Camille Sée" law establishing public secondary education for young women, and three years before the opening of the Lycée Fenelon. The founders, grouped in an association called "Société pour la propagation de l'instruction parmi les femmes", included Paul Bert

Paul Bert

Paul Bert was a French zoologist, physiologist and politician. He is sometimes given the sobriquet "Father of Aviation Medicine".-Life:Bert was born at Auxerre...

 (1833–1886), former Minister for Education, and a militant for Public Education. The school became co-educational in 1969.

Collège Sévigné was also the first school in France

France

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 to open a kindergarten

Kindergarten

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, in 1909.

Famous contributors to the education program at the school have been Alain

Émile Chartier

Émile-Auguste Chartier, commonly known as Alain was a French philosopher, journalist, and pacifist.Alain entered lycée d'Alençon in 1881 and studied there for five years...

, Gurevitch, Jankelevitch

Vladimir Jankélévitch

Vladimir Jankélévitch was a French philosopher and musicologist.- Biography :Jankélévitch was the son of Russian Jewish parents, who had emigrated to France....

, Dumezil

Georges Dumézil

Georges Dumézil was a French comparative philologist best known for his analysis of sovereignty and power in Proto-Indo-European religion and society...

, Braudel, Mounier

Mounier

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, Carcopino, Merleau-Ponty, Jacqueline de Romilly

Jacqueline de Romilly

Jacqueline Worms de Romilly, née David was a French philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer. Because she was of Jewish ancestry, the Vichy government suspended her from her teaching duties during the Occupation of France. she was the first woman nominated to the Collège de France, and in...

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The 1935 Nobel Prize for Chemistry winner, Irène Joliot-Curie

Irène Joliot-Curie

Irène Joliot-Curie was a French scientist, the daughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Jointly with her husband, Joliot-Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of artificial radioactivity. This made the Curies...

, daughter of Marie Curie

Marie Curie

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, is one of the alumnae of the school, where she studied from 1912 to 1914 to obtain her Baccalaureat

Baccalauréat

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The school is only one of three non-denominational private schools in Paris

Paris

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The school is located on 28 Rue Pierre-Nicole in the 5th arrondissement.

Collège Sévigné offers classes from kindergarten to the Baccalaureat.