Journées du Patrimoine 2024: visits to the Lycée Voltaire in Paris

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 41st edition of the Journées du Patrimoine, the Lycée Voltaire invites you to discover its history through guided tours on Saturday, September 21, 2024.

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 at the Lycée Voltaire in Paris:

• Guided tour of Lycée Voltaire
  Saturday, September 21, 10:00 a.m.
  

  Visit the Lycée Voltaire

  From its creation to the present day
  Guided tour of the school, inaugurated in 1891

  
  
  
• Guided tour of the Lycée Voltaire in Paris
  Saturday, September 21, 10:00 a.m.
  

  The Lycée Voltaire

  Its history, from its opening in 1890 to the present day
  Guided tour of the school

  
  
  

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