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  2. Divers
  3. Grand-Est
  4. Aube
  5. 10500 Brienne-le-Château

  6. Military school

Military school à Brienne-le-Château dans l'Aube

Military school

    34 Rue de l'École Militaire
    10500 Brienne-le-Château
Ownership of the municipality
Museums of France
Miscellaneous
Ecole militaire
Ecole militaire
Ecole militaire
Ecole militaire
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Timeline

Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1700
1800
1900
2000
1730
Conversion to college
1776
Establishment of military school
1779–1784
Stay of Napoleon Bonaparte
1790
Revolutionary closure
29 janvier 1814
Battle and fire
29 juin 1933
Historical monument classification
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

Buildings of the former military school: classification by order of 29 June 1933

Key figures

Napoléon Bonaparte - Student and Emperor Pensioner from 1779 to 1784.
Lucien Bonaparte - Brother of Napoleon Raise after his brother.
Louis-Marie-Athanase de Loménie, comte de Brienne - Minister of War Owner of the adjacent castle.
Archevêque de Toulouse - School Protector Support for expansion in 1774.

Origin and history

The School of Brienne finds its origins in a convent of Minimes founded to educate the children of the region. In 1730, the establishment was transformed into a college and expanded in 1774 with the support of the Archbishop of Toulouse and his brother, minister. In 1776, when the government established a branch of the École militaire in Paris, it became more prominent in French military history.

The school closed in 1790 after the Revolution, and its buildings were sold and partially demolished. Only the castle, built by the Count of Brienne, minister of war under Louis XVI, preserved its fascist. Napoleon Bonaparte, his most illustrious resident (1779–84), studied there before his brother Lucien joined. The city, ravaged by a fire in 1814 during a battle, later benefited from the imperial promise of reconstruction and a testamentary legacy.

Ranked a historic monument in 1933, the former school now houses a museum dedicated to Napoleon I. The buildings, owned by the commune, bear witness to this educational and military past, linked to one of the major figures in French history. Their preservation allows us to evoke both the teaching of the Enlightenment and revolutionary upheavals.

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