Lycée François-Ier
Location
11 Rue Victor Hugo

77300 Fontainebleau

France
Information
TypePublic
Motto"Varis Verbis Vox Una"
Established1882 (1882)
School districtCréteil
PrincipalChristopher Carton
GenderCo-educational
Enrolment1390 (2020)
Websitelyceefrancois1.net

The Lycée François-Ier, in long form Lycée International François-Ier, is a public secondary school located in Fontainebleau, France. In addition to the mainstream public French curriculum, the institution houses private English and German-language sections through which students can take the option internationale du baccalauréat (OIB), the international variant of the French baccalauréat.[1]

History

Plans to establish a municipal school in Fontainebleau were first tabled in 1874 under president Patrice de MacMahon and minister of public instruction Arthur de Cumont, the objective being to provide education for the sons of officers.[2] After a competition was held in 1877, Henri Proust was officially commissioned in 1880 to design the new institution, which was founded at the site of a house Le Clos de Bel-Air (originally built in 1840) and would fall under the category of lycée.[3]

The school was named Collège Carnot in 1888 after president Lazare Carnot. In 1910 under principal Boinet, dormitories and an infirmary were added. When France entered World War II in 1939, the campus was requisitioned. During the occupation of France, classes took place at the former Maison Sauvager on Rue Grande while the original premises was used as a field hospital. Only external students were permitted during this time.

Preparatory classes were introduced in 1948. The multilingual école international de Fontainebleau was established in 1959 in an agreement between the Ministry of Education and SHAPE, who eventually left in 1967. The Anglophone Section was created in 1979, the high school of which is hosted at the lycée.[4][5]

Anglophone Section logo

The school was renamed Lycée François 1er in King Francis I of France’s honour in 1960. In 2016, international was added to the title. Regional council president Valérie Pécresse brought the lycée as well as an elementary school (école élémentaire internationale Léonard-de-Vinci) and middle school (collège International) under the same international school banner, the campus international de Fontainebleau, so students could follow an international education throughout their schooling.[6]

Notable people

Alumni

Faculty

Partner schools

References

  1. ↑ "Anglophone Section of Fontainebleau". Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  2. ↑ Création d'un collège à Fontainebleau (in French). 1874. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  3. ↑ Daguenet, Patrick (2002). Fontainebleau, et ses villages d'art (1850-1950): le tout-Paris dans la forêt (in French). p. 161. ISBN 9782914700085.
  4. ↑ "Our history". The Anglophone Section of Fontainebleau.
  5. ↑ "Les meilleurs anglophones étudient au lycée François-Ier". Le Parisien (in French). 7 October 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  6. ↑ Vallier, Yoann (21 May 2016). "Valérie Pécresse a inauguré le campus international de Fontainebleau". La République (in French).
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