Lycée Lamartine

The lycée was founded in 1893 in a former folly owned by Pierre Beauchamps. Some parts of the current building date from a renovation done in 1740 by Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne; the panelling in one of the ancient rooms is designated a National Heritage.{{Base Mérimée|PA00088987|Lycée Lamartine}} The national department of education acquired the building in 1891 and turned it into a lycée for girls. In 1914, a baccalauréat in science was first awarded; one of the students receiving it, Jeanne Lévy, became the first woman professor at the medical school of the University of Paris, in 1934.{{cn|date=September 2022}} The directrice from 1917 to 1919 was Marguerite Canon, an educator who also directed two other Parisian schools, the Lycée Jules-Ferry (1919-1922) and the Lycée Fénelon (1922-1930).{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XVmYDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA283 |page=283 |title=Madame le Professeur: Women Educators in the Third Republic |first=Jo Burr |last=Margadant |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2019 |isbn=9780691656786}}

From June to August 1940 the school provided for the many refugees fleeing the German advance. During the war, dozens of the school's Jewish students were deported.

In the 1960s the entrance exam was dropped and combined with the population increase resulting from the baby boom the number of students at the school increased greatly. An adjoining building was annexed. During the unrest of the May 1968 events in France, the students managed to rewrite the old student regulations, which were deemed too strict.

• Jeanne Galzy, whose novel Burnt Offering contains a school based on the Lycée{{cite book|last=Milligan|first=Jennifer E.|title=The Forgotten Generation: French Women Writers of the Inter-war Period|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=df26PdTknf4C&pg=PA97|accessdate=28 July 2013|year=1996|publisher=Berg|isbn=9781859731185|page=97}}
• Dina Lévi-Strauss
• Marie Laurencin{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m86vCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA314 |page=314 |chapter=Marie Laurencin |title=Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography |editor1-first=Jennifer |editor1-last=Uglow |publisher=Springer |year=1991 |isbn=9781349127047}}
• Stéphane Audran

• Barbara Corrado Pope's The Missing Italian Girl (2013) is set at the Lycée.{{cite news |url=https://eugeneweekly.com/2013/02/28/a-tale-of-two-women/ |newspaper=Eugene Weekly |accessdate=September 27, 2022 |title=A Tale of Two Women: Local author Barbara Corrado Pope explores Belle Epoque Paris in an elegant murder mystery |first=Alex V. |last=Cipolle |date=February 28, 2013}}{{cite journal |url=https://issuu.com/histnovel/docs/issue63feb13 |date=February 2013 |issue=63 |page=33 |title=Rev. of The Missing Italian Girl |first=Ellen |last=Keith |journal=Historical Novels Review}}
• George Lucas' Star Wars: A New Hope

• {{cite book |first=J. |last=Bonnardot |year=1933 |title=Un lycée des jeunes filles dans un vieil hôtel parisien, le lycée Lamartine}}
• {{cite book |first=J. |last=Roux |year=1997 |title=Le Lycée Lamartine (1891-1996). Histoire d'un lycée parisien de jeunes filles |location=Lille |publisher=Presses Universitaires du Septentrion}}

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