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Origin and history

The Lycée Jean-Baptiste-Say occupies the location of the former hotel Galpin, a mansion built at the beginning of the 18th century in Auteuil, bought in 1804 by industrialist Étienne Ternaux-Rousseau who renamed it "Ternaux Castle". In 1852, Abbé Lévêque founded the Notre Dame Institution, a Catholic institution closed in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian war. The city of Paris acquired the building in 1872 to set up the normal school of teachers, then a higher primary school (EPS) named "Jean-Baptiste Say" in 1876, led by M. Menu de Saint Mesmin.

Between 1882 and 1897, the EPS was enlarged under the direction of architects Germain Sallard and directors Marguerin and then Bishop, encircling the old castle of modern premises. The school specializes in scientific and technical teaching, preparing for trade and industry. In 1941, under Minister Jérôme Carcopino, the EPS became a "modern college", before becoming a state high school in 1953, under the impulse of the principal Place, with technological fields.

The central pavilion, classified as a historic monument in 1928, retains the facade and two interior rooms (large living room and principal's office) of the former Galpin hotel. The high school also houses a monument to the dead of 1921 carved by Raoul Lamourdedieu, and a bronze statue, Le Travail, by Charles-Auguste Lebourg. Since 1954, its rooms have paid tribute to resistant former students, scientists or authors. In 2017, students launched a newspaper, Sayen Libéré, replaced in 2019 by Le Sayen, which became digital in 2020.

The high school appeared in several film works, such as Gérard Oury's La Carapate (1978) and Rose Bosch's La Rafle (2010), and inspired Vincent Jaury's novel La Petite Bande (2022). Its preparatory classes (PSI, PT, BCPST) and academic ranking (25th departmental in 2018) make it a renowned institution, marked by its architectural and educational heritage.

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