Journées du Patrimoine 2025: visits to the Lycée Voltaire in Paris, the program

Visiting a high school over the weekend? Your children may well drag their feet... Before they let themselves be seduced by this place with its rich and fascinating history! For the 42nd edition of the Journées du Patrimoine, the Lycée Voltaire invites you to discover its history through guided tours on Saturday, September 20, 2025.

Designed by architect Eugène Train, the school was inaugurated in 1890 by President Sadi Carnot during the Third Republic, and was for many years the only lycée in northeastern Paris. When it first opened, it was an all-boys school, before gradually becoming coeducational from 1973.

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During your visit, you'll be able to admire a marble sculpture created in 1907 by Victor Segoffin on one side of the cour d'honneur. This monument was originally intended for the Pantheon, but was stored for six years in a storeroom before being installed in the Lycée Voltaire. Today, the school is home to over 900 high school students, 440 middle school students and 80 students in preparatory classes.

Here is the detailed program for the Journées du Patrimoine 2025 at the Lycée Voltaire in Paris:

• Guided tour of the Lycée Voltaire
  Saturday, September 20, 2025 - 10:00 ⤏ 12:00
  

  Visit and history of the Lycée Voltaire

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  From its creation to the present day, the history of the Lycée Voltaire as told by former students, members of the Association des anciens élèves et professeurs du Lycée Voltaire de Paris (AALVP).

  Guided tour of the school, inaugurated in 1891.

  
  
  

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