Military national Academy

The military national Prytanée is one of the six today military colleges French concerning the ministry for Defense. This school of a very rich history is located in the area of the Pays of the Loire, with the borders of the Maine, the Anjou and the Touraine, in the town of the Arrow.

Institution created by the king Henri IV with an aim of to inform youth and to make it in love with sciences, the honor and the virtue, to be able to be used for the public , he is also the heir to the Prytanée wanted by Napoleon as of 1800 and installed with the Arrow in 1808.

Since its foundation in 1604, faithful to its mission of education, the Academy did not cease forming generations of pupils to the service of France.

Historical presentation

It is in 1603, under the impulse of Guillaume Fouquet of the Game preserve, that the king Henri IV decides to found with the Arrow, in the “Castle-nine”, an important house of family built in 1540 by his grandmother, the duchess of Alençon, a college for the instruction and the education of noble young people without fortune: the Henri-the-Large royal college .

Henri-the-Large royal college (1604 - 1672)

In 1604, the king entrusts the management of the establishment to the Jésuites, one of the teaching bodies most famous of the time, with for mission of to inform youth and to make it in love with sciences, the honor and the virtue, to be able to be used for the public . The latter arrive with the Arrow on January 2nd, 1604, and start to teach the Grammaire, the Rhétorique, the Latin , the Greek , the Hebrew , the Philosophie, the Mathématiques and the Théologie, quickly making establishment one of the most important colleges of the Royaume. What will make write with the Philosophe Descartes, one of the first and famous boarders of the institution between 1607 and 1615: I was in one of the most famous schools of Europe .

This true faculty makes Arrow a cosmopolitan intellectual center of first order, where flow until 1  500 pupils come from the provinces of France and even of foreign countries, under the direction of 120 Jesuits.

School of juniors (1764-1776)

In 1762, the Jesuits are expelled and teaching is then ensured by former students. April 7th, 1764, in the context of the War Seven Year old, the duke of Choiseul, Minister for the War under Louis XV, transforms the college into a preparatory École of Juniors to the royal École military by the Champ de Mars , founded in Paris in 1751, and reserved to the child of gentlemen, but also for wire of the officers killed or wounded with the war and knights of the Ordre of Saint-Louis.

Royal and academic college (1776-1793)

In 1776, the Count of Saint-Germain tries to make close the establishment, but Louis XVI restores it under the name of Collège royal and academic and gives the direction of it to the Fathers of the Christian Doctrines. It is at that time that Henri Gratien Bertrand, companion of Napoleon Bonaparte with Sainte-Hélène, and the brothers Claude and Ignace Chappe, inventors of the Sémaphore, make their studies there.

The arrival of the revolutionary period makes run to the college of the Arrow serious risks. Left with the abandonment, plundered by the troops of passage of the Armed with the West, the college is closed in 1793 to be used as workshop of shoe manufacture for the armies of the Republic.

Military academy (1808-1982)

The establishment is however still upright when, on March 24th, 1808, the Empereur Napoleon I {{er}} makes the Military academy of it , heir to the Greek Prytanée , and the Prytanée transfers to it from Saint-Cyr military school by the decree of Saint-Cloud:

Article 1^er: from the 1^er next June, the Academy of Saint-Cyr military school will be transferred to the college of Flèche.
Article 2^e: to the 1^er next July, the Military academy of Fontainebleau will be transferred to Saint-Cyr military school.

June 15th, 1808, when the Academy of Saint-Cyr military school was installed with the Arrow, the director of studies, Mr Crouzet, former professor of the Université of Paris and member of the Légion of honor, after the Mass of the Holy Spirit celebrated by the bishop of Mans, made with the address of the pupils a speech which it finished as follows:

I dare to take on your behalf, in the presence of this famous assembly, the solemn undertaking to work, contemplate our duties and to collect the spirit of those whose this establishment is honoured, not to let die out crowned fire|Mr. Crouzet

Thus the vocation of the military national Academy appears:

• To prepare its pupils, intellectually with the Universities and, morally, to be useful in the high direction of the old word of the military language;
• “Reserve of active devotions, to make men”: the First World War, the Second world war, as well as the War of Indo-China, the War of Algeria and humanitarian operations which currently proceed out of the Métropole, proved that the military national Academy remains faithful to this high mission.

The establishment took at the 19th century of many names: military royal School in 1814, military royal College in 1831, military national College in 1848, military imperial Academy in 1853, Military academy in 1870.

May 16th, 1940, the vicissitudes of the Second world war oblige to evacuate the Academy on Billom. June 19th, 1940, the convoy takes again its road to flee the occupying army, and is directed successively towards Bordeaux, Bayonne then Biarritz. June 22nd, 1940, the armistice is signed. The convoy sets out again towards the the Mediterranean on June 27th, 1940, and arrives at Billom on June 30th, 1940. In September 1940, the Academy settles with Valence, and in September 1942, the unit takes the name of national Prytanée and the Small Academy moves for Briançon. Finally, the Large Academy joined its buildings of the old college of the Jesuits in October 1943, where it is joined on January 5th, 1945 by the Small Academy. At the end of the war, the national Prytanée finds its title of Military academy , lost during the war.

Military national academy (1982 at our days)

In 1974, the Academy becomes military Collège with a special statute. Since the reform of the military colleges in 1982, the Academy, become college, takes the military name national Prytanée , and concentrates on its two main missions:

• family assistance for the secondary cycle (of the classes of second to final);
• assistance with recruitment for the preparatory classes at the military universities.

In 1983, Sandrine Mathieu (16 years) was the first pupil of female sex of the military national Academy.

In 2004, the Academy celebrates a double birthday: the quadricentennial of the royal College, and the bicentenary of the imperial Academy. On this occasion, Francois Fillon then Minister for State education declares that “As long as France will live, the Academy will be. ”

Decorations and mentions in dispatches received

• Legion of honor by decree of June 28th, 1935;

• Military Cross 1914-1918 per decree of December 20th, 1926:

The Military academy, the preparatory military academies informed in the love of the fatherland and the worship of the military virtues of the generations of pupils who provided during the war a seedbed of frameworks and valorous soldiers who, by their heroism and their abnegation, maintained the high traditions morals that their elder had bequeathed to them.

• Military Cross 1939-1945 per decree of July 11th, 1949:

Faithful to its mission of training men and chiefs, the Military academy saw, during the second world war, its pupils or former students to take part brilliantly in the operations which proceeded in France, in Europe and Overseas, like with the combat of the résistance.
As of on September 2nd, 1939, the executives formed with the Academy carried out the fight without failure until the victory and five hundreds of them sacrificed their life to the ideal which they had drawn from the traditions and the teaching of their school.

• Military Cross of the TOE by decision of July 15th, 1954:

The Military academy, faithful to its secular mission, continued to maintain among its pupils the worship the love the fatherland, the honor and the spirit of sacrifice.
With provided since the release to our military universities of the quotas of pupil-officers of an importance such as the executives which it formed took since 1946 an exceptional share with the terrestrial operations, naval and air of the Far East where two hundreds of them fell to the field from honor, thus maintaining the traditions crowned bequeathed by their elder and giving to the nation a new proof that the Military academy remains one of the top-places where forges the size of France.

Establishment and infrastructures

The military national Academy, which covers an total surface area of 29 Hectare S is installed in two districts: the district Henri IV which shelter the preparatory classes with the entrance examinations of the military universities and which are located at the center of the city, and the Gallieni district, district of the secondary classes, established with the entry of the agglomeration.

The district Henri IV

Classified historic building, the district Henri IV, of a surface of 16 hectares, is located at the center of the city of the Arrow. It is about historical quarters constituting an architectural whole of very beautiful pace. The construction of the buildings goes back to the beginning of the 17th century.

This district shelters today:

• command of the Academy (staff and direction of the Studies);

• the preparatory classes at the military universities (1st and 2nd years), is approximately 300 pupils with the environment of the classes, dormitories, dining rooms and rooms of leisures;
• the services which make it possible to ensure the normal functioning of the establishment (various medical center, garage, workshops, stores);
• the library and the information center (TDCI);
• the church Saint-Louis, built 1607 with 1621, which preserved until in 1793 the royal Cénotaphe S containing the hearts of Henri IV and Marie de Médicis. Burned on the public place, ashes were collected by Fléchois, and were placed in 1814 in a niche of the northern arm of the transept;
• elegant a Garden with the Frenchwoman, prolonged of a secular park;
• Several sporting installations: swimming pool, military equestrian section, gymnasium and various sports grounds.

The Gallieni district

Distant of 900 meters as the crow flies of the district Henri IV, the Gallieni district is built on a surface of 13 hectares at the entry of the city of the Arrow. In the beginning, it constituted the barracks “the Tower of Auvergne” built in 1876, to shelter the 117 {{E}} regiment of infantry. It became, in 1923, the district of the secondary classes. The current school infrastructure was carried out as from the years 1950.

This district shelters today:

• the administration of the college (assistant Headmaster of the Military Academy National, Directeur of the studies and the Commander of district, representative of the chief of police)
• the classes of Second, First and Final, is approximately 500 pupils, who live there throughout the year, in their environment of classes, dormitories, refectory ( the graille) just remade to nine, sports complex, rooms of leisures, clubs;
• an information center and of Information (TDCI);
• a hearth for the pupils;
• a sports complex, including/understanding amongst other things, a gymnasium, a ground of Rugby, a ground of Football, various tracks or installations of Athletics, as well as many sporting clubs or leisures (Judo, Fencing, Model making, Race of orientation, etc);

Monuments and architecture

Starting from 1607 and until in 1655, of important work of establishment are carried out. Because of the fact that it is necessary to acquire the surrounding houses one by one to demolish them, work advances rather slowly.

The Gate of honor

The Gate of honor, or Royal Gate, was completed in 1655. It presents on its pediment a bust of Henri IV placed in a niche and is decorated with the royal weapons.

The architect of this large gate is not known with certainty, although last work of carried out inventories seems to indicate Charles Cesvet.

The Castle-nine

In 1537, with died of her husband Charles of Bourbon, duke of Vendôme, Francoise d' Alençon makes build, opposite the old feudal castle, the Castle-nine, which is completed in 1540.

In 1552, Antoine of Bourbon settles there with Jeanne d' Albret. Of return to Pau, it then gives rise to the future Henri IV on December 13rd, 1553, which fed the rumor concerning the fact that the king Henri IV had been designed with the Arrow, in the Castle-nine.

The Saint-Louis church

The church Saint-Louis, Masterpiece of the father Angel-Etienne Martellange, is built in its carcass work heavy castings of 1607 with 1621.

In 1616, Guillaume Fouquet of the Game preserve, is buried in the Crypte, and a monument will be set up to him in 1653. Large the Retable of the high altar is carried out in 1633 by Pierre Corbineau. The Organ and its platform are works realized between 1638 and 1640 by the Organ builder Ambroise Vasseur and the architect Jacques Nadreau, to replace the primitive organ, probably installed in 1622, and which one is unaware of almost all. In 1648, niches are arranged in the high part of the arms of the Transept to accommodate, with their death, the hearts of the king Henri IV and the queen Marie de Médicis. The side Chapelle S are completed in 1655, while interior decoration, of style Baroque as for it is completed only in 1693.

In 1722, Jean Dangreville increases organ, a fourth keyboard adds to him, and the power increases some according to the French esthetics of the time.

In 1793, in the context of the French revolution, the royal Cenotaph S containing the hearts of Henri IV and Marie de Médicis is withdrawn from the church and is burned on the public place (current place of the Release). Ashes then are collected by Fléchois, and are placed in 1814 in a reliquary in the shape of heart in a niche of the northern arm of the transept.

At the 20th century, the organ is classified historic building and, having been plundered at the time of the Révolution and lasting part of the 19th century, is the subject of a restoration in three stages in 1935, 1937 and 1947, making it possible to preserve old piping. Starting from the Years 1980, the instrument is degraded again, and a new restoration is carried out of 1992 with 1996, restoring with the instrument its last splendor.

Parks and gardens

The Academy lays out of more than 13 Hectare S of parks and gardens. With 18th century, a Jardin with the Frenchwoman came to replace the garden of style Renaissance drawn in 1542. In the center of the garden a Fontaine (basin) is, who was in the beginning the wash-stand of the Jésuites fathers.

The secular park (dissolves) shelters as for him the swimming pool and the military equestrian section in its north-western part.

Courses

The plan worked out by Louis Métezeau, Architect of the king, presents a row of three Cour S successive of equivalent size, and dominated by the imposing stature of the Saint-Louis church. With the foot of the Castle-nine the Royal Cour is , also called Cour of the Fathers because of the fact that it sheltered the monks, completed in 1655 at the same time as the Royal Gate, (nowadays it names Cour of Austerlitz , name given by the Emperor Napoleon III in remembering his uncle; it is called still more simply Main courtyard , because it is in this court that is held the majority of the official ceremonies).

With the Western, the foot of the Saint-Louis church and Room of the Acts is the Cour of the Classes today Cour of Sébastopol , which precedes the Cour by the Boarders (today " Court of Iéna-Alger" )

On both sides of the three courses, are with the Is the Basse court of the Fathers , and with the Western the Basse court of the Boarders , today Cour of Solférino , who are both reserved for the domestic functions of the school.

The library

Right from the start Royal College, Henri IV allotted to the Jesuits a perpetual equipment of 1  000 ecus for the purchase of books, so that in 1776, the Bibliothèque already did not count less 4  869 works.

The library then grew rich by several funds, in particular the gifts of the royal family and those of noble or members of the benevolent Clergé, among which Marie de Médicis, the Grand Cop, the Dauphin and future king Louis XV, Louis XVI, the Archevêque of Toulouse, etc Thereafter, the collections continued to increase by the gifts of various ministries or the particular legacies.

She will be likely to escape the revolutionary seizures and to accommodate funds confiscated coming from abbeys, of Versailles, of Trianon and the university of Paris, with the result that in 1812, at the time of its transfer to its current place, she counts 12  000 volumes. In 2004, the funds inventoried of the works former to 1930 is rich of 22  000 pounds, including more than one thousand of volumes of old the funds Jesuit, while the posterior funds modern on this date contains 12  000 works, which carries the unit to more 34  000 parts in encyclopedic matter.

Among the treasures which it conceals, the library contains a Incunable the City of God of holy Augustin printed in 1470 and which is its oldest work, as well as a Homère and a Virgile of the 16th century, a Bible Polyglotte of 1645, an old edition of the Discourse on Method of Descartes, the Encyclopédie or reasoned Dictionary of sciences, arts and trades of Diderot and of Alembert, volumes of the description of Egypt, etc

Of arched form, such length vessel, its decoration interior presents two Fresque S of Calliope and Uranie.

bond towards the library

Rooms

; The room of the Acts: It was about a vast amphitheater built in 1634 by a master carpenter of the Arrow, Thomas Belesme. There place at the time of the Jesuits had various representations, of which exercises called “Acts” which gave their name to the room. About 1900 this room was divided in two levels to accommodate classrooms and a dormitory called “the airship” because of its important volume. In 1998, this one became a conference room but preserved this name among the pupils.

; The room of honor: This room shelters the plates on which the names of the pupils are engraved having received the price of honor. It also contains a series of tables representing the life with the Academy lasting second half of the XIXe century.

; The room of the generals: They are actually the old visiting room, which shelter today an appendix of the museum of the Academy and contain memories of former students, and in particular generals from where its name

; The room of the Jesuits: Completed in 1627 it was in the beginning the kitchen where the Jesuits prepared their meals. It is now used as room of staff meeting.

Traditions

In addition to four hundred years of history, the military national Academy saw the anchoring of many traditions. These last are strongly present and belong to the daily life of the pupils, also called “Brution S” or “ñass” .

As for the majority of the universities, there exists a true spirit of friendship, Loyauté and solidarity between the pupils. This “brution spirit” gives to the Academy much sound will have.

Currency

; Noblesse obliges, Bahut also : This currency takes as a starting point the currency of the Chamborant Houzards , regiment of cavalry ancestor of the 2 {{E}} regiment of hussards. At the time Colonel, his chief of police and owner, the marquis de Chamborant chooses as rallying cry of the regiment “Nobility obliges, Chamborant as much”, currency taken again then in various forms in the French Army . It symbolizes the double abnegation of the Noblesse and the membership of the body.

Song of tradition

The song of tradition of the Academy is Huron the . It acted at the beginning only of one operatic aria of J. Gurtner adopted by the brass band of the Academy towards 1919. Vis-a-vis the success met by this one, the re-examined prytanéenne required in 1939 of the pupils to make proposals to associate words to him and to make the official song of the establishment of it. The president of the review, Pidoux of Maduère, compiled them to make the text still sung of it today.

Presentation with the flag

The presentation with the flag is the official ceremony of the school beginning of the year, during which the integral ones at the military universities present the flag of the school, decorated with its and Legion Military Crosses of honor, pupil of the Academy and military authority. It takes seat in the main courtyard of the district Henri IV.

Celebrates of Trime

The festival of Trime is a celebration honouring the school end of the year, and which lasts one complete weekend. It gives place to various activities (ball, sport, spectacles, given of price…), like with a military ceremony chaired by a higher authority.

The strong moment of the festival of Trime is the Triumph of the price of honor: the famous pupil of preparatory class more deserving over its two years of work. Placed on a shield carried by six of his comrades, he is walked in triumph in the gardens of the Academy and the center of the Arrow. He is then led towards the college of the brought together professors who give to him the Price of the President of the Republic. Then the Price of Honor exchanges its cap against the kepi of a general present.

The festival of Trime ends in the dive of the Price of Honor in the fountain of the Jesuits. The pupil is then still vêtu of his uniform…

Thûrne

The Thûrne is the celebration of the festival of Christmas which takes place each year with the Gallieni district, and during which each class presents a diverting activity. It is enclosed by a Fireworks.

The Brutionne Mole

The Taupe Brutionne is the regrouping of the pupils of the military national Academy of the Arrow preparing the examination entrance to prestigious the Polytechnic school. This class was founded in 1830.

In 1917, the pupils who until there prepared the Naval college within the Mole, created the class of Flotte brutionne . The pupils of the Mole are traditionally called the Taupins .

The Brutionne Mole saw passing from many personalities since its creation:

• Pierre Guillaumat, former minister who obtained the Price of Honor to his departure of the Academy in 1924;
• Michel Virlogeux, which is at the origin of the Viaduc of Millau;
• Jean-François Clervoy, Spationaut;
• Caroline Aigle, first Frenchwoman Fighter pilot.

The Cornice brutionne

The Corniche brutionne is a regrouping of pupils preparing the contest of the military special École of Saint-Cyr military school to the military national Academy of the Arrow. The word Cornice , comes from the place under which the first regrouping of the kind was held, with the college Stanislas with Paris as of the end of the 19th siècle.

Since 1939, each promotion of the Cornice brutionne bears name of a godfather, selected among the former students of the Cornice died for France. The list of the godfathers is engraved on marble plates in the staircase known as " cyrards" where are also laid out their portraits.

" cornichons" carry a stone-block navy blue to buttock light blue.

The Brutionne Fleet

Since 1917, the Flotte Brutionne is a regrouping of pupils who prepare the contest of the Naval college with the Military National Academy of the Arrow.

She saw passing under her rows, inter alia, the Admiral Jacques Lanxade, Admiral to have only been Chief of staff of the armies, and the Admiral Alain Oudot de Dainville, current Chief of staff of the navy. The pupils of the Fleet brutionne are called the matafs and carry a bachi like distinctive sign inside the Academy.

The Brutionnes Wings

The Ailes Brutionnes are a regrouping of pupils who prepare the contest of the Flying school to the military national Academy of the Arrow.

they carry the stone-block navy blue with vulture of the air force

Nonofficial badge specific intended for Raised preparation to the Flying school of Living room of Provence (possible preparation since 1935), Elèves which prepares “Air” is called the “Avias”

The AAAEPNM

The friendly Association of the former students of the military national Academy (AAAEPN) gathers the whole of the former students of the establishment. It was founded the July 16th 1880 on the initiative of Louis Vossion, French Consul, after three attempts fallen through between 1849 and 1874. The purpose of it is:

1. “to establish between all the former students of the friendly relations and to facilitate the means to them of being come mutually helps some,
2. to help, in the measurement as of its resources, its members, their widows and orphans,
3. to contribute to the development of the education given to the school,
4. to contribute to the conservation, the protection and the moral and historical radiation of the Military National Academy. ”

She was recognized of public utility the October 3rd 1888.

Famous former students

• Achilles Baraguey d' Hilliers (1795 - 1878), Marshal of France;

• Adrien Joseph Deutsch (1818 - 1895);
• Pleasant Pélissier (1794 - 1864), duke of Malakoff, Marshal of France, Ambassador of France, Large Chancellor of the Legion of honor;
• Alain Agenet (1922 - 1977), resistant;
• Alain Oudot de Dainville, Admiral and current Chief of staff of the navy.
• Alexandre Angélique of Talleyrand-Périgord (1736 - 1821), cardinal and Politician;
• Andre Fourié (1927 - 1953), lieutenant fallen at the time of the Battle from Diên Biên Phu, knight of the Legion of honor, Military Cross of the TOE with palm;
• Antoine Brutus Menier (1795 - 1853), contractor and founder of the Chocolate Menier;
• Antoine Compagnon (born on July 20th, 1950), polytechnician, engineer of the Bridges and Chaussées, doctor d' arts État, Professor of French literature to the University of Paris-Sorbonne and the University Columbia of New York, member of the High council of education and professor with the Collège de France;
• Antoine François Prévost (1697 - 1763), more known under its ecclesiastical title of abbot Prévost, Novelist, Historian, Journalist and translator;
• Aristide Aubert Of Small-Thouars the (1760 - 1798), Captain and legendary hero of Aboukir;
• Bernard Saint-Hillier (1911 - 2004), Lieutenant-general of army, Grand Cross of the Legion of honor, Companion of the Release, Military Cross 1939-1945 (9 quotations), Cross of the military Value (2 quotations), Medal of Resistance;
• Caroline Aigle (1974 - 2007), polytechnician and first woman Fighter pilot in the French Air force;
• Charles Denis Bourbaki (1816 - 1897), General which was distinguished in the Foreign legion at the time of the Crimean War, then in the Armée with the Rhine then the Armée with the East at the time of the Franco-German war;
• the brothers Claude Chappe (1763 - 1805) and Ignace Cap (1760 - 1830), inventors of the Semaphore;
• Edouard-Jean-Etienne Deligny (1815 - 1902), Major general of Infantry and Grand Cross of the Legion of honor;
• Ernest Courtot de Cissey (1810 - 1882), General and Politician French;
• Eugene Silvain (1851 - 1930), actor with the Comédie-Française;
• François of Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), writer, moralist and memorialist French, especially known for its Maxims ;
• François of Montmorency-Laval (1623 - 1708), first bishop of the Quebec;
• François Joseph Amédée Lamy (1858 - 1900), Commander, deceased at the time of the battle of Kousséri;
• François Louis Rousselet de Châteaurenault (1637 - 1716), Vice-admiral and Marshal of France;
• François Missoffe (1919 - 2003), Politician;
• Close Gabriel (1880 - 1973), one of the most famous pioneers of the Aviation;
• Louis-Gaston de Sonis (1825 - 1887), General being itself particularly illustrated at the time of the Battle of Loigny during the war of 1870;
• Georges Catroux (1877 - 1969), General, general Governor of the Algeria, Minister for the North Africa, judge of the High military Tribunal having judged the generals putschists of Algiers of 1961, its funerals in the church Saint-Louis-of-Invalids the December 24th were retransmises on line on one of the two only French television channels of the time;
• Gerard de Cathelineau (1921 - 1957), Captain, Military Cross 1939-1945 with bronze star;
• Henri Amiel (1907 - 1976), Large Officer of the Legion of honor, Companion of the Release, Grand Cross of the National order of the Merit, Military Cross 1939-1945 (2 quotations), Military Cross of the TOE (6 quotations), Cross of the Military Value (1 quotation), Medal of Resistance, Colonial Medal, Medal of Raising, Cross of the Combatant, Cross of the Voluntary Combatant of Resistance, Medal Commemorative of the Services Volunteer in Free France, Commemorative medal 39/45, Medal Commemorative of Indo-China, Medal Commemorative of Security operations and the Maintenance of law and order in AFN, Medal of Rescue of the Merchant navy, Commander about black star, commander of Nicham Iftikar, commander about Star of Anjouan, commander of the Royal Order of Kampuchea, officer about Sahametrei;
• Henri Gouraud (enquiring) (born in 1944), researcher in data processing, inventor, inter alia, of the technique of shade in synthesized image which bears its name, the Ombrage of Gouraud;
• Henri Gratien Bertrand (1773 - 1844), general of the First empire, companion of Napoleon to Grey waxbill;
• Henri Jules Battles (1816 - 1882), Major general of Infanterie and Grand Cross of the Légion of honor;
• Husain Bey (1893 - 1969), prince of Tunisia;
• Jacques Aupick (1789 - 1857), General, ordering Polytechnic school, Ambassador and Senator;
• Jacques Fitz-James de Berwick (1670 - 1734), Duke of Berwick-upon-Tweed, Marshal of France was the natural son of Jacques II Stuart, King d' Angleterre and of Arabella Churchill, sister of John Churchill, Duc of Marlborough;
• Jacques Lanxade, Admiral to have only been Chief of staff of the armies;
• Jacques Massu (1908 - 2002), General being illustrated in various battalions of parachutists during the Second world war, inter alia elements of a rich and animated career, Grand Cross of the Legion of honor, Companion of the Release, Military Cross 1939-1945, Military Cross of TOE, Cross of the Military Value;
• Jean Simon (1912 - 2003), Lieutenant-general of army, Grand Cross of the Legion of honor, Military Cross 1939-1945, Military Cross of the TOE, Cross of the military Value;
• Unpleasant Jean (1836 - 1863), Second lieutenant with the foreign Regiment at the time of the Battle of Camerone;
• Picardy Jean (1620 - 1682), Astronomer and Geodesy N, it was the first to calculate the ray Ground in a precise way, by measuring a degree of Latitude by Triangulation along the Méridien of Paris;
• Jean-Baptiste Budes, count de Guébriant, Marshal of France;
• Jean-Claude Brialy (1933 - 2007), Actor Realizer and Scenario writer;
• Jean-Claude Pressac (1944 - 2003), Chemist and Pharmacist, refuted not only the theses negationnists and showed the operation of crematory of Auschwitz and showed the implication of certain German companies in the Final solution orchestrated by the Nazis;
• Jean-François Clervoy (born on November 19th, 1958), Spationaut French of the European space agency;
• Joseph Gallieni (1849 - 1916), Marshal of France, Minister for the War, general Governor of the Sudan and general governor of Madagascar;
• Kléber Haedens (1913 - 1976), writer, Novelist, Essay writer and Journalist;
• Louis d' Aurelle de Paladines (1804 - 1877), General, Appointed, Senator and decorated with the Legion of honor;
• Louis Jean Baptist of Aurelle de Paladines (1804 - 1877), Major general and Grand Cross of the Legion of honor;
• Louis Marie Aubert Of Small-Thouars the (1758 - 1831), Botanist and Academician;
• Louis-Nathaniel Rossel (1844 - 1871), Minister for the war of the Common of Paris;
• Marine Mersenne (1588 - 1648), Monk French pertaining to the order of the Tiny , Mathematician and Philosopher;
• Maurice Big shot (1902 - 1983), engineer and Académicien, regarded as an important figure in the development of the Radar S, Médaille Andre Blondel, Prix Hughes of the academy of sciences, Gold medal of encouragement to national industry, Prix Christophe Colomb, commander of the Légion of honor, Grand Cross of the National order of the merit, commander of the academic Palmes;
• Michel Virlogeux (born in 1946), architect of the Viaduct of Millau, bridge highest of the world;
• Odilon Deck-beam (1791 - 1873), politician;
• Oswald Benign of Montarby (1828 - 1865), Major being particularly distinguished at the time of the Bataille from San Pablo LED Assembles during the program of Mexico, and with which the acts of bravery will be worth with its whole regiment to be decorated with the Légion of honor, fact then single in the cavalry;
• Patrick Baudry (born on March 6th, 1946), Astronaut French of CNES;
• Paul Arnault (1911 - 1968), Brigadier general, commander of the Legion of honor, Companion of the Release, Military Cross 1939-1945 (6 quotations), Military Cross of the TOE (2 quotations), colonial Medal, Medal of the escaped prisoners, Cross of the voluntary combatant, Medal of the voluntary military services, Medal commemorative of the war 1939-1945, Medal commemorative of the countryside of Italy 1943-1944, Medal commemorative of the countryside of Indo-China, Medal Commemorative of Security operations and of Maintenance of law and order in AFN, Medal Commemorative of Raising, Commander of Nicham Iftikar;
• Paul Girot de Langlade (born on August 11th, 1946), officer of the French Army, senior official, currently Prefect of the Guadeloupe, knight of the Legion of honor and officer of the National order of the Merit;
• Paul Margueritte (1860 - 1918), writer and member of the Academy Goncourt;
• Pierre Bourdan (1909 - 1944), Journalist and politician;
• Pierre Guillaumat (1909 - 1991), former minister and industrialist who obtained the price of honor to his departure of the Academy in 1924;
• Pierre Montagnon (born in 1931), Historian and officer of the Legion of honor on a purely military basis;
• Pierre Séguier (1588 - 1672), Chancellor of France, duke of Villemor, politician and French magistrate;
• pol. Lapeyre (1905 - 1925), the circumstances of its death during the combat of the Morocco are since 1973 the object of a quotation read each year in front of the pupils of the cornice at the time of the 2S;
• Raphaël Viénot (1804 - 1855), Colonel distinguished by the Legion from honor;
• Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), celebrates Philosophe, Mathématicien, and Physicien French, considered as the founder of modern philosophy;
• Rene François Regnier (1794 - 1881), writer ecclésiaste;
• Rene Imbot (1925 - 2007), General and French senior official, Chief of staff of the Army, managing director of DGSE, decorated with the Legion of honor and the Military Cross of the T.O.E;
• Roger Andre (1914 - 1999), resistant;
• Théobald Dalmas de Lapérouse (1814 - 1903), Major general and large officer of the Legion of honor;
• Victor Peralda (1889 - 1918), Captain being particularly distinguished at the time of the First World War (quoted eight times, including six times at the order of the army), knight of the Legion of honor;
• Yvon Briant (1954 - 1992), politician and Appointed;
• Jean-Louis Georgelin ((born in 1948)), chief of staff of the Armies.

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