The École normale supérieure de jeunes filles (also, École normale supérieure de Sèvres) was a French institute of higher education, in Sèvres, now a commune in the suburbs of Paris. The school educated girls only, especially as teachers for the secondary education system.[1] It was founded on 29 July 1881 on the initiative of Camille Sée, following the Sée-inspired act of the legislature which established lycées for girls. In 1985 it merged with the École normale supérieure of the rue d'Ulm.
History
[edit]On the school's founding, French Minister of National Education Jules Ferry named the philosopher and educator Julie Velten Favre director of the institution.[2] The school was initially housed in the former buildings of the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, from which it was ejected in 1940; it was reinstated in the Boulevard Jourdan, in the 14th arrondissement. It existed until 1985, when it merged with the École normale supérieure, Rue d'Ulm, forming a co-educational school.[3]
Directors (1881–1988)
[edit]- Julie Favre (Madame Jules Favre) 1881–1896
- Madame Henri Marion née Jeanne Marie Hall:[4] 1896-1906
- Louise Belugou : 1906–1919
- Anne Amieux : 1919–1936
- Eugénie Cotton : 1936–1941
- Edmée Hatinguais : 1941–1944
- Lucy Prenant : 1944–1956
- Marie-Jeanne Durry : 1956–1974
- Josiane Serre : 1974–1988
Notable students
[edit]- Rose Celli
- Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
- Assia Djebar
- Marie Duflo
- Jeanne Galzy
- Paulette Libermann
- Luce Pietri
Faculty
[edit]- Élie Cartan
- Eugénie Cotton
- Marie Curie
- Jacqueline Ferrand
- Paul Langevin
- André Lichnerowicz
- Jean Perrin
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Fox, Robert (2012). The Savant and the State: Science and Cultural Politics in Nineteenth-Century France. JHU Press. p. 288. ISBN 9781421405223.
- ^ Long, Kathleen P., ed. (2006). Religious Differences in France: Past and Present. Truman State University Press. ISBN 9781931112574.
- ^ Chimisso, Cristina (1 January 2008). Writing The History of the Mind: Philosophy and Science in France, 1900 to 1960s. Ashgate. pp. 20 n. 32. ISBN 9780754690252.
- ^ Charle, Christophe. "François, Henri , Marie". In INRP (ed.). Les professeurs de la faculté des lettres de Paris – Dictionnaire biographique 1809-1908 (in French). Paris. pp. 131–132..
- Kosmann-Schwartzbach, Yvette (2015). "Women mathematicians in France in the mid-twentieth century". BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. 30 (3): 227–242. arXiv:1502.07597. doi:10.1080/17498430.2014.976804.