Lycée français de Pondichéry

Private school in India

French International School Pondicherry
Main courtyard
Location

12 Rue Victor Simonel, Pondicherry, Puducherry, India
Information
Type	Private
Established	1826; 198 years ago (1826)
Principal	Jean-Marie Yhuel
Grades	Class 1 – 12
Number of students	550
Campus size	5 acres (20,000 m²)
Affiliation	University of Rennes
Website	www.lfpondichery.net

The Lycée français international de Pondichéry is an international French school in Pondicherry, Puducherry, India. The school provides education from pre-primary to lycée (senior high school), 3 to 18 years old.

It is directly operated by the Agency for French Education Abroad (AEFE), an agency of the French government.^[1] The school also is part of the AEFE network of 500 French high schools overseas.

It was established as the Collège Royal on 26 October 1826 by Eugène Desbassayns de Richemont, then Governor-General of Pondichéry in French India, during the Bourbon Restoration.

In 2014, the school signed a memorandum of understanding with the Future Foundation School in Kolkata providing for student exchanges.^[2]

References

^ "Rechercher un établissement" (in French). Agency for French Education Abroad. Retrieved 15 March 2024. - Purple means "Gestion directe" (directly operated), and this school is in the color code for purple.
^ ""School pact opens window to French education", (Archive). The Times of India, 8 November 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2015.

External links

International French School Pondicherry
Lycée Français de Pondichéry (in French)

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