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The Collège de l'Immaculée-Conception is a former Jesuit establishment founded in the second half of the 19th century, located at 391 rue de Vaugirard and 1 rue Lacretelle in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. It initially consisted of several wings, including a chapel and dormitories, partially preserved today. Some of the buildings were destroyed to allow the construction of the auto-managed high school in Paris, while a remaining building now houses part of the Panthéon-Assas University.

The establishment originated in the transfer by Abbé Poiloup of his institution of Vaugirard to the Jesuit fathers, who made it the college of the Immaculate Conception. At the same time, Fr.Lévêque, former professor of science and prefect of Poiloup's studies, founded the Notre Dame Institution in Auteuil. This college is linked in particular to the history of the Gaulle family: the General's father taught there, and Charles de Gaulle was a pupil there for a few years.

After its score, the college underwent several functional transformations. The chapel, disacralized, now serves as an amphitheater at the Pantheon-Assas University, while the former dormitories have become rooms of controlled work. Only the two wings of the chapel and the dormitory were protected by an inscription to historical monuments, by order of 2 October 1990.

The site thus illustrates the evolution of religious establishments into secular institutions, while preserving architectural traces of its Jesuit past. Its history also reflects the urban and educational changes of Paris in the late 19th and 20th centuries.

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