List of Lycée Louis-le-Grand people

This page lists members of Lycée Louis-le-Grand, under the institution's successive identities including as Collège de Clermont from 1563 to 1682. It includes alumni, faculty, and administrators. Where available, it indicates the period when the individual was active at Louis-le-Grand. In each section, individuals are listed by chronological order of birthdate, which largely correlates with chronological order of presence at Louis-le-Grand.

The list does not include individuals who studied or taught in other educational institutions that later merged into Louis-le-Grand or into whose former premises Louis-le-Grand expanded. Such cases include names that are occasionally but questionably referred to as Louis-le-Grand alumni, e.g. Cyrano de Bergerac, Racine, Boileau, Charles Perrault and Rousseau at the Collège de Beauvais, or Turgot and Lafayette at the .

Alumni

Writers, philosophers and social scientists Writers and poets Charles de Saint-Évremond (1613–1703) in the 1620s Bussy-Rabutin (1618–1693) in the early 1630s Jean de Santeul (1630–1697) in the 1640s Pierre-Robert de Cideville (1693–1776) around 1710 Jean-Jacques Lefranc de Pompignan (1709–1784) in the 1720s Marquis de Sade (1740–1814) in 1750–1754 Victor Hugo (1802–1885) in 1816–1818 Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) in 1820 Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) in 1836–1839 Octave Feuillet (1821–1890) in the 1830s Paul Bourget (1852–1935) ca. late 1860s Romain Rolland (1866–1944) in the mid-1880s; Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 Léon Daudet (1867–1942) in the early 1880s Paul Claudel (1868–1955) in 1882–1885 Paul Fort (1872–1960) in the 1880s Charles Péguy (1873–1914) part-time in 1891–1894 Valery Larbaud (1881–1957) in the 1890s Alain-Fournier (1886–1914) in 1906–1907 Jean Guéhenno (1890–1978) in 1910–1911 Joseph Kessel (1898–1979) in the 1910s Jacques Rigaut (1898–1929) in the mid-1910s Pierre-Henri Simon (1903–1972) ca. 1921–1923 Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001) in the late 1920s Maurice Bardèche (1907–1998) in 1922–1928 Phạm Duy Khiêm (1908–1974) ca. 1929–1931 Robert Merle (1908–2004) ca. late 1920ssist René Étiemble (1909–2002) ca. 1927–1929 Robert Brasillach (1909–1945) in 1925–1928 Henri Queffélec (1910–1992) in the late 1920s Paul Guth (1910–1997) ca. late 1920s Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) in 1931–1935 Roland Barthes (1915–1980) ca. 1931–1934 Maurice Druon (1918–2009) in the late 1930s Michel Butor (1926–2016) in the 1940s Claude Esteban (1935–2006) ca. mid-1950s Jean-Loup Dabadie (1938–2020) in the 1950s Régis Debray (1940) in the late 1950s Olivier Rolin (1947) ca. mid-1960s Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948) in 1966–1968 Frédéric Beigbeder (1965) in the early 1980s Philosophers Voltaire (1694–1778) in 1704–1711 Denis Diderot (1713–1784) around 1729–1732 Julien Benda (1867–1956) in the early 1880s Jean Wahl (1888–1974) ca. 1906–1907 Jean Guitton (1901–1999) in 1919–1920 Jean Cavaillès (1903–1944) in 1920–1923 Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) in 1922–1924; Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964 Maurice de Gandillac (1906–2006) ca. 1922–1924 Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) in the 1920s Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) ca. early 1940s Bertrand Poirot-Delpech (1929–2006) in the 1940s Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) in 1949–1952 Alain Badiou (1937) in the mid-1950s Alain de Benoist (1943) ca. early 1960s Georges Chapouthier (1945) ca. early 1960s Philippe-Joseph Salazar (1955) 1973–1975 Souleymane Bachir Diagne (1955) in the mid-1970s Linguists, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, economists Émile Littré (1801–1881) in the 1810s Eugène Burnouf (1801–1852) in the 1810s Jean-Barthélemy Hauréau (1812–1896) in the 1820s Frédéric Passy (1822–1912) ca. 1833–1835; Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 Charles Barbier de Meynard (1826–1908) ca. mid-1840s Gaston Maspero (1846–1916) in the early 1860s Auguste Angellier (1848–1911) ca. 1865–1866 Ferdinand Brunetière (1849–1906) in the late 1860s Émile Durkheim (1858–1917) in the late 1870s Georges Goyau (1869–1939) in the late 1870s André Lichtenberger (1870–1940) in the 1880s Joseph Vendryes (1875–1960) around 1890 Marc Bloch (1886–1944) ca. 1900–1904 Émile-Guillaume Léonard (1891–1961) ca. 1908–1911 Georges Dumézil (1898–1986) ca. 1914–1916 Henri Laoust (1905–1983) in the early 1920s Maurice Allais (1911–2010) in 1930–1931; Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1988 Jacqueline de Romilly (1913–2010) ca. 1931–1933 Jean-Henri Azéma (1913–2000) in the mid-1930s Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914–2007) in the early 1930s Jacques Le Goff (1924–2014) in the early 1940s Lucien Bianco (1930) ca. 1951–1952 Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) in 1948–1951 Claude Hagège (1936) in 1953–1955 Alexandre Adler (1950) in the late 1960s Thomas Piketty (1971) ca. 1987–1989

Artists Playwrights, actors and filmmakers Molière (1622–1673) possibly in the early 1640s Georges Méliès (1861–1938) in the late 1870s René Clair (1898–1981) in the mid-1910s Michel Cournot (1922–2007) in the late 1930s Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933–2021) in the early 1950s Patrice Chéreau (1944–2013) in the early 1960s André Weinfeld (1947) ca. mid-1960s Jérôme Deschamps (1947) in the 1960s Visual artists Théodore Géricault (1791–1824) in 1806–1810 Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) in 1806–1815 Edgar Degas (1834–1917) in 1845–1853 Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834–1904) in 1843–1851 Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894) in the late 1850s (in Vanves) François Flameng (1856–1923) ca. early 1870s Lucien Simon (1861–1945) in the 1870s Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) in the 1880s François Tuefferd (1912–1996) around 1920 Composers Fabien Lévy (1968) in the 1980s

Scientists René Castel (1758–1832) in the 1770s Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774–1862) ca. 1780–1791 Michel Chasles (1793–1880) in 1809–1812 Gabriel Lamé (1795–1870) ca. 1810–1814 Hippolyte Morestin (1869–1919) ca, 1883 Arthur Morin (1795–1880) ca. 1810–1813 Irénée-Jules Bienaymé (1796–1878) ca. 1812–1815 Évariste Galois (1811–1832) in 1823–1829 Paul-Quentin Desains (1817–1885) ca. 1830–1835 Charles Hermite (1822–1901) in 1840–1842 Étienne-Émile Desvaux (1830–1854) ca. 1843–1847 Alphonse Laveran (1845–1922) ca. 1860–1863; Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1907 Eugène Goblet d'Alviella (1846–1925) ca. 1862–1865 Henri Becquerel (1852–1908) ca. 1868–1872; Nobel Prize in Physics in 1870 Alfred Binet (1857–1911) ca. mid-1870s Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963) in the late 1870s and early 1880s Félix d'Hérelle (1873–1949) around 1890 Jean Becquerel (1878–1953) in the 1890s Louis Leprince-Ringuet (1901–2000) in the 1910s Étienne Wolff (1904–1996) in the early 1920s Jean Bernard (1907–2006) in the early 1920s Laurent Schwartz (1915–2002) in 1932–1934; Fields Medal 1950 Yves Colin de Verdière (1933) ca. early 1960s Serge Haroche (1944) ca. 1960–1963; Nobel Prize in Physics in 2012 Olivier Faugeras (1949) ca. 1969–1971 Gilles Pisier (1950) in 1967–1969 Pierre-Louis Lions (1956) in 1973–1975; Fields Medal 1994 Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957–2016) ca. 1971–1975; Fields Medal 1994 Laurent Lafforgue (1966) in the mid-1980s; Fields Medal 2002 Cédric Villani (1973) in 1990–1992; Fields Medal 2010

Statesmen and politicians French heads of state and/or government Cardinal de Fleury (1653–1743), first minister 1726–1743, at LLG ca. 1659–1665 René Nicolas de Maupeou (1714–1792), chief minister 1770–1774, around 1730 Maximilien de Robespierre (1758–1794), leader of the revolutionary government 1793–1794, in 1769–1781 Paul Deschanel (1855–1922), President of the Republic in 1920, ca. 1865–1871 Alexandre Millerand (1859–1943), President of the Republic 1920–1924, ca. 1875 Raymond Poincaré (1860–1934), President of the Republic 1913–1920, ca. late 1870s Paul Painlevé (1863–1933), Prime Minister in 1917 and 1925, in 1877–1883 Pierre Mendès France (1907–1982), President of the Council 1954–1955, ca. 1923 Maurice Couve de Murville (1907–1999), Prime Minister 1968–1969, ca. early 1920s Alain Poher (1909–1996), acting President of the Republic in 1969 and 1974, ca. late 1920s Georges Pompidou (1911–1974), President of the Republic 1969–1974, ca. 1929–1931 Michel Debré (1912–1996), Prime Minister 1959–1962, around 1930 Pierre Messmer (1916–2007), Prime Minister 1972–1974, ca. early 1930s Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926–2020), President of the Republic 1974–1981, ca. 1940–1946 Michel Rocard (1930–2016), Prime Minister 1988–1991, ca. mid-1940s Jacques Chirac (1932–2019), President of the Republic 1995–2002, ca. 1949–1951 Alain Juppé (1945), Prime Minister 1995–1997, in 1962–1964 Laurent Fabius (1946), Prime Minister 1984–1986, ca. 1964–1966 Heads of state and/or government in other countries Nicholas I of Montenegro (1841–1921), first and last King of Montenegro 1910–1918, at LLG ca. late 1850s Milan I of Serbia (1854–1901), King of Serbia 1882–1889, ca. 1861–1868 Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001), first President of Senegal 1960–1980, ca. 1929–1931 Paul Biya (1933), President of Cameroon since 1982, in the 1950s Other prominent politicians and public servants Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (1629–1666), in the 1640s Étienne François, duc de Choiseul (1719–1785), secretary of state, at LLG ca. 1729-1730 Cardinal de Bernis (1715–1794), diplomat and author, around 1730 Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737–1832), signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence, in the early 1750s Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron (1754–1802), revolutionary leader, in the 1770s Camille Desmoulins (1760–1794), revolutionary leader, in the 1770s Victor Schœlcher (1804–1893), leading French abolitionist, in 1818–1819 Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys (1805–1881), foreign affairs minister, in the 1820s Eugène Belgrand (1810–1878), public works leader, ca. 1828–1829 Émile Beaussire (1824–1889), deputy and philosopher, ca. early 1840s Henry Adrian Churchill (1828–1886), British explorer and diplomat, in 1841–1846 Paul d'Estournelles de Constant (1852–1924), diplomat, in 1862–1870; Nobel Peace Prize in 1909 Jean Jaurès (1859–1914), founding president of the French Socialist Party, in the mid-1870s Maurice Papon (1910–2007), French minister, in the 1920s Edgard Pisani (1918–2016), French minister and European Commissioner, in 1939 Jacques de Larosière (1929), central banker, in the late 1940s Jean Tiberi (1935), Mayor of Paris 1995–2001, in the early 1950s Aziz Mekouar (1950), Moroccan diplomat, around 1970 Jean-Marie Le Guen (1953), junior minister, in the early 1970s Thierry Breton (1955), French minister and European Commissioner, in 1972–1975 Ridha Grira (1955), Tunisian minister, ca. 1974–1976 Božidar Đelić (1965), Serbian Finance Minister 2001–2003, in 1980–1984

Business leaders Louis Hachette (1800–1864), founder of Hachette (publisher), ca. 1815–1819 Eugène Goüin (1818–1909), cofounder and later chairman of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, in the 1830s André Michelin (1853–1931), co-founder of Michelin, in the early 1870s André Citroën (1878–1935), founder of Citroën, ca. 1896–1898 Michel Pébereau (1942), builder of BNP Paribas, around 1960 Jean-Charles Naouri (1949), owner of Groupe Casino, ca. 1965–1967 Jean-Sébastien Jacques (1971), CEO of Rio Tinto, ca. 1990–1994

Religious figures Saint Francis de Sales (1567–1622) in 1578–1588 Pierre de Bérulle (1575–1629) ca. 1591–1595 Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz (1613–1679) in 1625–1631 Claude Poullart des Places (1679–1709) in the early 1700s John Dubois (1764–1842) ca. 1773–1785 Dalil Boubakeur (1940) ca. 1957–1959 Philippe Jourdan (1960) ca. late 1970s

Military leaders and resistance fighters Charles François Dumouriez (1739–1823) in the 1750s Louis Vallin (1770–1854) ca. late 1780s / early 1790s Maxime Weygand (1867–1965) in the early 1880s Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves (1901–1941) in 1919–1921 Pierre Brossolette (1903–1944) ca. 1921–1922 Jacques Lusseyran (1924–1971) in 1940–1943 Thomas Elek (1924–1944) ca. 1940–1941