Collège Sainte-Barbe
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The Collège Sainte-Barbe (French pronunciation: [kɔlɛʒ sɛ̃t baʁb]) is a former college in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France.
The Collège Sainte-Barbe was founded in 1460 on Montagne Sainte-Geneviève (Latin Quarter, Paris).[1] It was until June 1999 the "oldest" college of Paris.
The Barbiste Spirit is kept alive through the Friendly Association of Old Barbistes, founded in 1820, recognized a public society since 1880, which is the oldest association of alumni of France, "l'Association Amicale des Anciens Barbistes".
Alumni
[edit]Former Barbists (ordered by date of birth) include:
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- Diogo de Gouveia (1471–1557)
- Ignace de Loyola (1491–1556)
- André de Gouveia (1497–1548)
- St. François-Xavier (1506–1552), Roman Catholic missionary to India, China, and Southeast Asia
- Pierre Lefevre (1506–1546)
- Guillaume Postel (1510–1581)
- Achilles Statius (1524–1581)
- Michel Adanson (1727–1806),naturalist)
- Jean Baptiste Louis Romé de Lisle (1736–1790), founder of crystallography
- Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier (1745–1799)[2]
- Eugène Scribe (1791–1861), dramatist and librettist
- Felix Dupanloup (1802–1878), bishop
- James Manby Gully (1808–1883), pioneer of hydrotherapy
- Warren De la Rue (1815–1889), British astronomer
- Gustave Eiffel (1832–1923), engineer[3]
- Sarkis Balyan (Armenian: Սարգիս Պալեան; 1835–1899)
- Arsène d'Arsonval (1851–1940), physicist and doctor
- Constantin Costa-Foru (26 October 1856 – 15 August 1935)
- Alfred Dreyfus (1859–1939)
- Jean Jaurès (1859–1914)
- Émile Borel (1871–1956), mathematician
- Enrique Zóbel de Ayala (born 1877), patriarch of the Filipino billionaire family of Zobel de Ayala
- Charles Péguy (1873–1914)
- Louis Blériot (1872–1936) Engineer and pioneer aviator[2]
- Henri-George Clouzot (1907–1977), scenario writer
- the actors Michel Piccoli (born 1925)
- Claude Lelouch (born 1937), scenario writers
- Bernard Kouchner (born 1939)
- François Berléand (born 1952)
Former faculty
[edit]Among the former professors are the historian Jules Michelet (1798–1874) and the journalist Serge July (born 1942).
Buildings
[edit]The buildings of the college have undergone numerous modifications since its establishment in 1460. A university library, the Sainte-Barbe Library, has opened to the public in March 2009.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Lebarbé, Annabelle (2007-06-10). "Le collège Sainte-Barbe de Paris : des frères Labrouste à Ernest Lheureux". Livraisons de l'histoire de l'architecture (in French) (13): 137–148. doi:10.4000/lha.418. ISSN 1627-4970.
- ^ a b Elliot, Brian A. Blériot, Herald of an Age Stroud: Tempus 2000 p.11
- ^ Loyrette, Henri Gustave Eiffel New York: Rizzoli, 1985 p.29
References
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