Lycée Louis-Barthou

Lycée school in France

43°17′46″N 0°21′52″W / 43.2962°N 0.3645°W / 43.2962; -0.3645InformationTypeLycéeEstablished1640ProviseurEric RottierCampus typeurbanWebsitehttps://www.lyceelouisbarthou.fr/

Lycée Louis-Barthou is a secondary school in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France.

History

The school's history goes back to a religious establishment founded by Jesuits in 1640. It is named for French politician Louis Barthou.

Academics

The school offers classes at the Seconde, Première (scientifique, littéraire, économique et social) SMTG, and Terminale level as well as Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles.^[1]

Notable pupils

Academia

Pierre Bourdieu (1930, in Denguin -2002) - sociologist
Guy Debord (1931 – 1994) - Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work
Louis Favoreu (1936 – 2004) - academic, specialized in public law, and a jurist
Philippe Leveau (born 1940 in Angoulême) - historian and archaeologist

Arts

Comte de Lautréamont (1846-1870) - poet
Titouan Lamazou (born 1955 in Casablanca) - navigator, artist and writer
Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) - poet-diplomat, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry."
Joseph Peyré (1892-1968) - writer
Frederick Cayley Robinson (1862 – 1927) - English artist