Marracq college

The Marracq College is a public college of Bayonne, located in the district of Marracq at Bayonne. It is one of the largest colleges of the area Aquitaine.

Some figures

approximately 1000 pupils each year
91 professors during the school year 2006-2007
40 classes

History

The “college of Bayonne”

Since 1598, Bayonne had a college of secondary education, thanks to the financial assistance of notable of the ville.
Conflicts between the city and évêché blocked sometimes the operation of the college. They related primarily to the choice of principal or the attribution of the emolument préceptoriale.
Famous names honoured the function with the Main thing. Among them, Crow Jansen, future bishop of Ypres and celebrates author of Augustinus .
The college kept its municipal autonomy until 1789, in spite of the attempts of the Jésuite S for of emparer.
With the Revolution, the college had to close its doors, and during many years secondary education in Bayonne was distributed more only by private boarding schools.

1879 - 1914

The Marracq college such as we know it today is the heir to the “college of Bayonne”, founded on October 7th, 1879 in the same buildings as those known under the Ancien Mode. It is the oldest college of Aquitaine.
It exempts a religious teaching, lesson primary education, traditional secondary and special secondary " organized for the pupils who intend themselves for the commercial and industrial professions, with the administrative careers and the schools of the government for which the baccalaureat is not éxigé" .
216 pupils, whose 71 Spaniards are inscrits.
there Until in the Thirties the college of Bayonne knew the statute of international college hispano-French.

1914 - 1918

During the First World War, the college becomes temporarily hospital, far from the face. The boarding school is removed, the courses are exempted in the old Management of the customs.

1918 - 1939

The life begins again with the college. It continues to evolve/move with the century, it is modernized. The electricity is installed a little everywhere in the établissement.
In 1926, the college puts a point of honor to be taken part in the work of recovery of the Franc Poincaré.
This same year bursts an diplomatic incident between France and Spain: the sections hispano-Frenchwomen are closed.

1939 - 1945

Once again the war weighs heavy on the daily life of the college. Bayonne belongs to the zone occupied by the Nazi Germany. Since 1940, voluntary pupils join the rows of the Résistance.
In 1943, at the time of the total occupation of the Metropolitan France (France of Vichy included/understood), the college is requisitioned by the German troops. Buildings are yielded, but teaching continues to be assured. A Blockhaus is built in the park of the college. With its place the building B rises today.

from 1945 to our days

For the departure of the Nazi Germany, it is necessary to plan to increase and modernize the college become too small. For a long time however, only will function of the classes in prefabricated buildings, replaced little by little by the scientific block in 1963, then the buildings has and B.
In the building are the boarding school of the boys has, used today by the school complex Largenté, of the rooms of history-geography, and the information center and of information.
In the building B the infirmary, 20 classrooms and the réfectoire.
are In 1968, the reform of 1960 of the State education applies to Marracq: the college of boys and the college of girls amalgamate and become the college Rene Cassin (originating in Bayonne and author in the Universal declaration in the Human rights), located in bottom of the hill. The college of Marracq becomes the college of secondary education of Marracq.

Today, the Marracq college has grounds of Basket-ball, of Football, Athlétisme, the Hand-ball, of a room of acrogym, a gymnasium, material of GRS, volley ball and Badminton.

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