List of Lycée Louis-le-Grand people

Writers and poets

• Charles de Saint-Évremond (1613–1703) in the 1620s
• Bussy-Rabutin (1618–1693) in the early 1630s
• Jean de Santeul (1630–1697) in the 1640s
• Pierre-Robert de Cideville (1693–1776) around 1710
• Jean-Jacques Lefranc de Pompignan (1709–1784) in the 1720s
• Marquis de Sade (1740–1814) in 1750–1754
• Victor Hugo (1802–1885) in 1816–1818
• Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) in 1820
• Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) in 1836–1839
• Octave Feuillet (1821–1890) in the 1830s
• Paul Bourget (1852–1935) ca. late 1860s
• Romain Rolland (1866–1944) in the mid-1880s; Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915
• Léon Daudet (1867–1942) in the early 1880s
• Paul Claudel (1868–1955) in 1882–1885
• Paul Fort (1872–1960) in the 1880s
• Charles Péguy (1873–1914) part-time in 1891–1894
• Valery Larbaud (1881–1957) in the 1890s
• Alain-Fournier (1886–1914) in 1906–1907
• Jean Guéhenno (1890–1978) in 1910–1911
• Joseph Kessel (1898–1979) in the 1910s
• Jacques Rigaut (1898–1929) in the mid-1910s
• Pierre-Henri Simon (1903–1972) ca. 1921–1923
• Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001) in the late 1920s
• Maurice Bardèche (1907–1998) in 1922–1928
• Phạm Duy Khiêm (1908–1974) ca. 1929–1931
• Robert Merle (1908–2004) ca. late 1920ssist
• René Étiemble (1909–2002) ca. 1927–1929
• Robert Brasillach (1909–1945) in 1925–1928
• Henri Queffélec (1910–1992) in the late 1920s
• Paul Guth (1910–1997) ca. late 1920s
• Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) in 1931–1935
• Roland Barthes (1915–1980) ca. 1931–1934
• Maurice Druon (1918–2009) in the late 1930s
• Michel Butor (1926–2016) in the 1940s
• Claude Esteban (1935–2006) ca. mid-1950s
• Jean-Loup Dabadie (1938–2020) in the 1950s
• Régis Debray (1940) in the late 1950s
• Olivier Rolin (1947) ca. mid-1960s
• Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948) in 1966–1968
• Frédéric Beigbeder (1965) in the early 1980s

Philosophers

• Voltaire (1694–1778) in 1704–1711
• Denis Diderot (1713–1784) around 1729–1732
• Julien Benda (1867–1956) in the early 1880s
• Jean Wahl (1888–1974) ca. 1906–1907
• Jean Guitton (1901–1999) in 1919–1920
• Jean Cavaillès (1903–1944) in 1920–1923
• Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) in 1922–1924; Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964
• Maurice de Gandillac (1906–2006) ca. 1922–1924
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) in the 1920s
• Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) ca. early 1940s
• Bertrand Poirot-Delpech (1929–2006) in the 1940s
• Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) in 1949–1952
• Alain Badiou (1937) in the mid-1950s
• Alain de Benoist (1943) ca. early 1960s
• Georges Chapouthier (1945) ca. early 1960s
• Philippe-Joseph Salazar (1955) 1973–1975
• Souleymane Bachir Diagne (1955) in the mid-1970s

Linguists, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, economists

• Émile Littré (1801–1881) in the 1810s
• Eugène Burnouf (1801–1852) in the 1810s
• Jean-Barthélemy Hauréau (1812–1896) in the 1820s
• Frédéric Passy (1822–1912) ca. 1833–1835; Nobel Peace Prize in 1901
• Charles Barbier de Meynard (1826–1908) ca. mid-1840s
• Gaston Maspero (1846–1916) in the early 1860s
• Auguste Angellier (1848–1911) ca. 1865–1866
• Ferdinand Brunetière (1849–1906) in the late 1860s
• Émile Durkheim (1858–1917) in the late 1870s
• Georges Goyau (1869–1939) in the late 1870s
• André Lichtenberger (1870–1940) in the 1880s
• Joseph Vendryes (1875–1960) around 1890
• Marc Bloch (1886–1944) ca. 1900–1904
• Émile-Guillaume Léonard (1891–1961) ca. 1908–1911
• Georges Dumézil (1898–1986) ca. 1914–1916
• Henri Laoust (1905–1983) in the early 1920s
• Maurice Allais (1911–2010) in 1930–1931; Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1988
• Jacqueline de Romilly (1913–2010) ca. 1931–1933
• Jean-Henri Azéma (1913–2000) in the mid-1930s
• Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914–2007) in the early 1930s
• Jacques Le Goff (1924–2014) in the early 1940s
• Lucien Bianco (1930) ca. 1951–1952
• Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) in 1948–1951
• Claude Hagège (1936) in 1953–1955
• Alexandre Adler (1950) in the late 1960s
• Thomas Piketty (1971) ca. 1987–1989

Playwrights, actors and filmmakers

• Molière (1622–1673) possibly in the early 1640s
• Georges Méliès (1861–1938) in the late 1870s
• René Clair (1898–1981) in the mid-1910s
• Michel Cournot (1922–2007) in the late 1930s
• Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933–2021) in the early 1950s
• Patrice Chéreau (1944–2013) in the early 1960s
• André Weinfeld (1947) ca. mid-1960s
• Jérôme Deschamps (1947) in the 1960s

Visual artists

• Théodore Géricault (1791–1824) in 1806–1810
• Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) in 1806–1815
• Edgar Degas (1834–1917) in 1845–1853
• Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834–1904) in 1843–1851
• Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894) in the late 1850s (in Vanves)
• François Flameng (1856–1923) ca. early 1870s
• Lucien Simon (1861–1945) in the 1870s
• Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) in the 1880s
• François Tuefferd (1912–1996) around 1920

Composers

• Fabien Lévy (1968) in the 1980s

• René Castel (1758–1832) in the 1770s
• Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774–1862) ca. 1780–1791
• Michel Chasles (1793–1880) in 1809–1812
• Gabriel Lamé (1795–1870) ca. 1810–1814
• Arthur Morin (1795–1880) ca. 1810–1813
• Irénée-Jules Bienaymé (1796–1878) ca. 1812–1815
• Évariste Galois (1811–1832) in 1823–1829
• Paul-Quentin Desains (1817–1885) ca. 1830–1835
• Charles Hermite (1822–1901) in 1840–1842
• Étienne-Émile Desvaux (1830–1854) ca. 1843–1847
• Alphonse Laveran (1845–1922) ca. 1860–1863; Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1907
• Eugène Goblet d'Alviella (1846–1925) ca. 1862–1865
• Henri Becquerel (1852–1908) ca. 1868–1872; Nobel Prize in Physics in 1870
• Alfred Binet (1857–1911) ca. mid-1870s
• Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963) in the late 1870s and early 1880s
• Félix d'Hérelle (1873–1949) around 1890
• Jean Becquerel (1878–1953) in the 1890s
• Louis Leprince-Ringuet (1901–2000) in the 1910s
• Étienne Wolff (1904–1996) in the early 1920s
• Jean Bernard (1907–2006) in the early 1920s
• Laurent Schwartz (1915–2002) in 1932–1934; Fields Medal 1950
• Yves Colin de Verdière (1933) ca. early 1960s
• Serge Haroche (1944) ca. 1960–1963; Nobel Prize in Physics in 2012
• Olivier Faugeras (1949) ca. 1969–1971
• Gilles Pisier (1950) in 1967–1969
• Pierre-Louis Lions (1956) in 1973–1975; Fields Medal 1994
• Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957–2016) ca. 1971–1975; Fields Medal 1994
• Laurent Lafforgue (1966) in the mid-1980s; Fields Medal 2002
• Cédric Villani (1973) in 1990–1992; Fields Medal 2010

French heads of state and/or government

• Cardinal de Fleury (1653–1743), de facto first minister 1726–1743, at LLG ca. 1659–1665
• René Nicolas de Maupeou (1714–1792), chief minister 1770–1774, around 1730
• Maximilien de Robespierre (1758–1794), leader of the revolutionary government 1793–1794, in 1769–1781
• Paul Deschanel (1855–1922), President of the Republic in 1920, ca. 1865–1871
• Alexandre Millerand (1859–1943), President of the Republic 1920–1924, ca. 1875
• Raymond Poincaré (1860–1934), President of the Republic 1913–1920, ca. late 1870s
• Paul Painlevé (1863–1933), Prime Minister in 1917 and 1925, in 1877–1883
• Pierre Mendès France (1907–1982), President of the Council 1954–1955, ca. 1923^[1]
• Maurice Couve de Murville (1907–1999), Prime Minister 1968–1969, ca. early 1920s
• Alain Poher (1909–1996), acting President of the Republic in 1969 and 1974, ca. late 1920s
• Georges Pompidou (1911–1974), President of the Republic 1969–1974, ca. 1929–1931
• Michel Debré (1912–1996), Prime Minister 1959–1962, around 1930
• Pierre Messmer (1916–2007), Prime Minister 1972–1974, ca. early 1930s
• Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926–2020), President of the Republic 1974–1981, ca. 1940–1946
• Michel Rocard (1930–2016), Prime Minister 1988–1991, ca. mid-1940s
• Jacques Chirac (1932–2019), President of the Republic 1995–2002, ca. 1949–1951
• Alain Juppé (1945), Prime Minister 1995–1997, in 1962–1964
• Laurent Fabius (1946), Prime Minister 1984–1986, ca. 1964–1966

Heads of state and/or government in other countries

• Nicholas I of Montenegro (1841–1921), first and last King of Montenegro 1910–1918, at LLG ca. late 1850s
• Milan I of Serbia (1854–1901), King of Serbia 1882–1889, ca. 1861–1868
• Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001), first President of Senegal 1960–1980, ca. 1929–1931
• Paul Biya (1933), President of Cameroon since 1982, in the 1950s

Other prominent politicians and public servants

• Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (1629–1666), in the 1640s^[2]
• Étienne François, duc de Choiseul (1719–1785), secretary of state, at LLG ca. 1729-1730^[3]
• Cardinal de Bernis (1715–1794), diplomat and author, around 1730
• Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737–1832), signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence, in the early 1750s
• Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron (1754–1802), revolutionary leader, in the 1770s
• Camille Desmoulins (1760–1794), revolutionary leader, in the 1770s
• Victor Schœlcher (1804–1893), leading French abolitionist, in 1818–1819
• Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys (1805–1881), foreign affairs minister, in the 1820s
• Eugène Belgrand (1810–1878), public works leader, ca. 1828–1829
• Émile Beaussire (1824–1889), deputy and philosopher, ca. early 1840s
• Henry Adrian Churchill (1828–1886), British explorer and diplomat, in 1841–1846
• Paul d'Estournelles de Constant (1852–1924), diplomat, in 1862–1870; Nobel Peace Prize in 1909
• Jean Jaurès (1859–1914), founding president of the French Socialist Party, in the mid-1870s
• Maurice Papon (1910–2007), French minister, in the 1920s
• Edgard Pisani (1918–2016), French minister and European Commissioner, in 1939
• Jacques de Larosière (1929), central banker, in the late 1940s
• Jean Tiberi (1935), Mayor of Paris 1995–2001, in the early 1950s
• Aziz Mekouar (1950), Moroccan diplomat, around 1970
• Jean-Marie Le Guen (1953), junior minister, in the early 1970s
• Thierry Breton (1955), French minister and European Commissioner, in 1972–1975
• Ridha Grira (1955), Tunisian minister, ca. 1974–1976
• Božidar Đelić (1965), Serbian Finance Minister 2001–2003, in 1980–1984

• Louis Hachette (1800–1864), founder of Hachette (publisher), ca. 1815–1819
• Eugène Goüin (1818–1909), cofounder and later chairman of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, in the 1830s
• André Michelin (1853–1931), co-founder of Michelin, in the early 1870s
• André Citroën (1878–1935), founder of Citroën, ca. 1896–1898
• Michel Pébereau (1942), builder of BNP Paribas, around 1960
• Jean-Charles Naouri (1949), owner of Groupe Casino, ca. 1965–1967
• Jean-Sébastien Jacques (1971), CEO of Rio Tinto, ca. 1990–1994

• Saint Francis de Sales (1567–1622) in 1578–1588
• Pierre de Bérulle (1575–1629) ca. 1591–1595
• Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz (1613–1679) in 1625–1631
• Claude Poullart des Places (1679–1709) in the early 1700s
• John Dubois (1764–1842) ca. 1773–1785
• Dalil Boubakeur (1940) ca. 1957–1959
• Philippe Jourdan (1960) ca. late 1970s

• Charles François Dumouriez (1739–1823) in the 1750s
• Louis Vallin (1770–1854) ca. late 1780s / early 1790s
• Maxime Weygand (1867–1965) in the early 1880s
• Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves (1901–1941) in 1919–1921
• Pierre Brossolette (1903–1944) ca. 1921–1922
• Jacques Lusseyran (1924–1971) in 1940–1943
• Thomas Elek (1924–1944) ca. 1940–1941

• Ernest Malinowski (1818–1899), Polish civil engineer, in 1832–1834
• Arthur Chassériau (1850–1934), art collector, ca. late 1860s / early 1870s
• Jacques Vergès (1926), lawyer, ca. 1936–1940
• Jacques Frémontier (1930–2020), journalist and television producer, ca. mid-1940s
• Gaston Juchet (1930–2007), engineer, ca. early 1950s
• Claude Ribbe (1954), activist and filmmaker, ca. early 1960s
• Philippe Boisse (1955), fencer, ca. early 1970s

• Juan Maldonado (1533–1583)
• Juan de Mariana (1536–1624)
• Francisco Suárez (1548–1617)
• Philippe Labbe (1607–1667)
• René Rapin (1621–1687)
• Ignace-Gaston Pardies (1636–1673)
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704)
• Charles de La Rue (1643–1725)
• René-Joseph de Tournemine (1661–1739)
• Claude Buffier (1661–1737)
• Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (1674–1743)
• Charles Porée (1675–1741)
• Pierre Brumoy (1688–1742)
• Charles Pierre Chapsal (1787–1858)
• Anatole Bailly (1833–1911)
• Henri Théophile Bocquillon (1834–1884)
• Jean Gaston Darboux (1842–1917)
• Auguste Burdeau (1851–1894)
• Jules Combarieu (1859–1916)
• Gustave Belot (1859–1929)
• Lucien Poincaré (1862–1920)
• Joseph Bédier (1864–1938)
• André Bellessort (1866–1942)
• Henri Abraham (1868–1943)
• Félicien Challaye (1875–1967)
• Étienne Weill-Raynal (1887–1982)
• Jean Guéhenno (1890–1978)
• Georges Bidault (1899–1983)
• Ferdinand Alquié (1906–1985)
• Charles Pellat (1914–1992)
• Robert Misrahi (1926–2023)
• Philippe Contamine (1932)
• André Warusfel (1936–2016)
• Donald Adamson (1939)
• Roger Chartier (1945)
• Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995)

This list is mainly based on the monography published in 1845 by Gustave Émond.^{[4]: 281–289}

• Ponce Cogordan (c.1563-1564)
• Edmund Hay (c.1564-1575)
• Pierre-Claude Mathieu (c.1575-1579)
• Odon Pigenat (c.1580-1581)
• Jean Sangenot (c.1582-1583)
• Alexandre Georges (c.1584-1593)
• Pierre Barny (1606)
• François Thyal (1607)
• Jean-Baptiste de Machault (c.1608-1613)
• Charles de la Tour (c.1613-1617)
• Jacques Sirmond (c.1617-1621)
• Jean Filleau (c.1622-1625 and 1630)
• Ignace Armand (c.1626-1629)
• Étienne Binet (c.1631-1633)
• Louis Malrat (c.1634)
• Jacques Dinet (c.1635-1638)
• Julien Hayneufve [fr] (c.1639-1646)
• Étienne Noël (c.1646-1649)
• Charles Lallemant (c.1649-1650 and 1660–1662)
• Jean-Baptiste Ragon (c.1651-1654)
• Philippe Shahu (c.1655-1657)
• Claude Boucher (c.1658-1659)
• Étienne Agard de Champs (c.1663-1667, 1682–1683, and 1687–1690)
• Jean de Turmenie (c.1668-1670)
• Pierre de Verthamon (c.1671-1673)
• Jean Pinette (c.1674-1677)
• Jacques Pallu (1678–1681)
• Jacques le Picart (c.1683-1686 and 1702–1704)
• Guillaume Ayrault (or Hurault) (c.1690-1693)
• Pierre Pommereau (c.1694-1697)
• Julien Baudran (c.1698-1699)
• Isaac Martineau (c.1700-1701)
• Michel Le Tellier [fr] (ca. 1705)
• Henri-Charles Forcet (c.1706-1708)
• Charles Dauchez (c.1709-1711)
• Louis-François Clavyer (c.1712-1714)
• Louis Labbe (c.1715-1717)
• Honoré Gaillard (c.1718-1720)
• Jacques-Philippe Lallemant (c.1720)
• François de Richebourg (c.1721-1723)
• François de Canappeville (c.1724-1726)
• Jean-Baptiste Bellingan (c.1727-1730)
• Jacques de Guenonville (c.1731-1733)
• Jean Lavant or Lavaux (c.1734-1737)
• Etienne Frogerais (c.1738-1740)
• Martin de Fontenelle (c.1741-1743)
• Joachim de la Grandville (c.1744-1748)
• Louis Le Gallic (c.1749-1751)
• Mathurin Germain Le Forestier (1752–1754)
• François de Saint-Jean (c.1754-1755)
• Mathieu-Jean-Joseph Allanic (c.1756-1759)
• Etienne de la Croix (c.1760)
• Henri Frelaut (c.1761-1762)

• Abbé Gardin du Mesnil (1764–1770)
• Abbé Poignard (1770–1778)
• Denis Bérardier (1778–1788)
• Jean-Louis Romet (1788–1791)
• Jean-François Champagne (1791–1808)

• Jean-François Champagne (1808–1810)
• Louis-Joseph de Sermand (1810–1815)
• Louis Gabriel Taillefer (1815–1819).^[5]
• François Christophe Malleval (1819–1823)^[6]
• Nicolas Bertot or Berthot (1823–1824)
• Pierre-Laurent Laborie (1824–1830)
• Jules Amable Pierrot-Deseilligny (1830–1845)^[7]
• Jacques Rinn [fr] (1845–1853)
• Bernard Forneron (1853–1856)^[8]
• Jean-Baptiste Antoine Jullien (1856–1864)^[5]
• Frédéric Jules Edmond Didier (1864–1868)
• Julien Girard (1868–1878)^[9]
• Charles Gidel [fr] (1878–1892)
• Désiré Blanchet [fr] (1892–1895)
• Alexandre Gazeau [fr] (1895–1909)
• Georges Ferté (1909–1929)
• Émile Abry (1929–1931)
• Émile Berrod (1931–1938)
• Lucien Chattelun (1938–1941)
• Camille Gibelin (1941–1955)
• Mr Boyé (1942–1944, acting)
• Raymond Schiltz (1955–1968)
• Albert Praud (1968–1969)
• Paul Deheuvels (1969–1991)
• Yves de Saint-Do (1991–1997)
• Joël Vallat (1997–2012)^[10]
• Michel Bouchaud (2012–2015)^[11]
• Jean Bastianelli (2015–2020)^[12]
• Joël Bianco (since 2020)