Lycée Fabert
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Lycée Fabert is a senior high school in Metz
, Moselle
, Lorraine
, France
. The school, in the city centre, was the first lycée in Metz.
Metz
Metz is a city in the northeast of France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers.Metz is the capital of the Lorraine region and prefecture of the Moselle department. Located near the tripoint along the junction of France, Germany, and Luxembourg, Metz forms a central place...
, Moselle
Moselle
Moselle is a department in the east of France named after the river Moselle.- History :Moselle is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790...
, Lorraine
Lorraine (région)
Lorraine is one of the 27 régions of France. The administrative region has two cities of equal importance, Metz and Nancy. Metz is considered to be the official capital since that is where the regional parliament is situated...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. The school, in the city centre, was the first lycée in Metz.
Facility
The high school consists of several buildings. They include:- The old lycée - It is the former convent abbey of St. Vincent - It includes the headmaster offices, the staff offices, the library, and the cloister (cloître)
- The "petit lycée" (Small lycée) - Built in 1845
- The refectory - Built in 2003
- St. Constance Building
- Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de TocquevilleAlexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville was a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution . In both of these works, he explored the effects of the rising equality of social conditions on the individual and the state in...
- It has served Classe préparatoire aux grandes écolesClasse Préparatoire aux Grandes ÉcolesThe classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles , commonly called classes prépas or prépas, are part of the French post-secondary education system. They consist in two very selective years , acting as a prep course with the main goal of training undergraduate students for enrolment in one of the...
(CPGE) students since the northern hemisphere autumn of 1999 - Boarding dormitory ("L'internat")
- "Palais des sciences" - The science building
Notable alumni
- René HabyRené HabyRené Haby was a French politician. He had been a prisoner of war during World War II....
- Sam HocevarSam HocevarSamuel “Sam” Hocevar is a French computer scientist, programmer, image processing expert and reverse engineer. Hocevar was the Debian Project Leader from 17 April 2007 to 16 April 2008.- Biography :...
- Louis JoxeLouis JoxeLouis Joxe was a French statesman, judge and politician.-Career:* Ambassador of France to the USSR * Ambassador of France to the Federal Republic of Germany...
- Jean-Victor PonceletJean-Victor PonceletJean-Victor Poncelet was a French engineer and mathematician who served most notably as the commandant general of the École Polytechnique...
- Robert SchumanRobert SchumanRobert Schuman was a noted Luxembourgish-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian Democrat and an independent political thinker and activist...
- Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de TocquevilleAlexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville was a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution . In both of these works, he explored the effects of the rising equality of social conditions on the individual and the state in...
- Joachim von RibbentropJoachim von RibbentropUlrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop was Foreign Minister of Germany from 1938 until 1945. He was later hanged for war crimes after the Nuremberg Trials.-Early life:...
Further reading
- Cordani, Aline.(2006) Le Lycée Fabert, 200 ans d’histoire. Serpenoise,