Lycée Champollion
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establishment in Grenoble
Grenoble
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, at 1 Cours La Fontaine, two steps from the place Victor Hugo. Its present director is M. Coppere.
The second oldest lycée in Grenoble (after the lycée Stendhal
Lycée Stendhal
The lycée Stendhal, formerly Lycée International Stendhal, is a secondary and higher education establishment in Grenoble. It is the oldest lycée in Grenoble, and its pupils have included Stendhal and Champollion...
, where the linguist Jean-François Champollion
Jean-François Champollion
Jean-François Champollion was a French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs....
was educated), the lycée Champollion is best known for the quality of its classes préparatoires
Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Écoles
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, making it the traditional school for the elites of Dauphiné
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and Savoy
Savoy
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.
History
The decision to build a second lycée in the town and to name it after the linguist Champollion was taken in 1880. Designs were commissioned from the architect Joseph Auguste Émile VaudremerJoseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer
Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer was a French architect. He won the prix de Rome and designed several public buildings in France, particularly in Paris.-Life:...
and the building was completed in October 1887.