The collège-lycée Jacques-Decour is a school in Paris on the avenue Trudaine.

History

The school was founded as the private collège Sainte-Barbe in 1821, renamed the private collège Rollin in 1830. After a move of premises in 1876 and the change from a private to municipal status, it became the lycée Rollin in 1919 and then took the name of the resistance fighter Jacques Decour

Jacques Decour

Jacques Decour, real name Daniel Decourdemanche, born 21 February 1910 in Paris, died 30 May 1942 in Fort Mont-Valérien, was a French writer and resistant, killed by the Nazis.- Biography :...

 since 1944. It is the only school in Paris to carry the name of a former teacher.

The old school building, rue Lhomond, after 1876

After the move of the collège Rollin to the avenue Trudaine in 1876, in 1877 its buildings on the rue Lhomond became the site of the Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris

Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris

The Protestant Faculty of Theology of Paris was a Protestant institution moved to Paris from Strassburg in 1877 in the buildings of the former collège Rollin, Rue Lhomond....

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