Since 1747 in France, the open competition is a Concours intended to reward each year the best pupils for the classes of first and final in the open competition for the colleges, and the apprentices in the open competition of the trades.

Its ancestor is the " Contest académique".

Presentation

The pupils of First can clash in French, history, geography, Latin version, Latin prose and Greek version.

The last year secondary school students can clash in philosophical essay, in Earth and life sciences, mathematics, physics-chemistry, engineering, social economic scene and, German, English, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese and Russian. Certain matters into final depend on the series.

Establishments are distinguished particularly each year, like the Louis-the-Large Lycée (quoted 21 times at the competition open 2007 including 6 price), the Lycée Henri-Iv (quoted 14 times at the competition open 2007 of which a price) or the Collège Stanislas (quoted 7 times at the competition open 2007 including 5 price). But of many pupils of other colleges also succeed.

This contest is particularly difficult since only 18 pupils to the maximum by matter are rewarded (3 prices, 5 certificates of merit, 10 mentions), whereas the number of candidates can rise for example with more than 2000 in mathematics (2142 in 2007).

The pupils who obtained a price are happiness by the Minister for State education in person during a ceremony which often takes place in the large amphitheater of the Sorbonne to Paris.

History

The open competition was instituted in 1744 by the Université of Paris to distinguish the best pupils, on the initiative of the Legendre abbot.

The first prices were decreed in 1747 with the Sorbonne. The open competition then addressed to the boys Parisian colleges. It opened to the pupils of province and to the girls in 1924. Limited at the origin with French, Latin, the Greek, the history, mathematics and physics, it opens in 1981 with the technological disciplines and in 1995 with the disciplines of the professional baccalaureat.

The session 2007 saw the entry of the Chinese.

Famous prizes winner

Antoine Lavoisier, Maximilien de Robespierre, Camille Desmoulins, Victor Hugo (and his son Charles), Alfred de Musset, Welsh Évariste, Charles Baudelaire, Edmond de Goncourt, Louis Pasteur, Henri Poincaré, Henri Bergson, Jean Jaurès, Leon Blum, Edouard Herriot, Alfred Jarry, Charles Péguy, Jean Giraudoux, Jules Romans, Edgar Faure, Georges Pompidou, Jacqueline de Romilly, Maurice Schumann, Alain Juppe, Laurent Schwartz, Alexandre Adler, Valerie Mangin, Marc Lambron, Julien Gracq, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Deniau, Abel Bonnard, Pierre Bourdieu, Jeanne Balibar, Georges Duby, Volker Schlöndorff, Roland Barthes, Paul Painlevé, Sadi Carnot, Arthur Rimbaud, Jean-Pierre Chevènement, Jorge Semprun

Internal bond

• Prizes winner of the open Competition

External bonds

• Historical of the open competition, annals of the tests
• Site of the Association of the prizes winner of the open competition
• Presentation by the minister of education main road
• Given of the prices of the competition open 2007

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