Lycée Carnot
The Lycée Carnot is a public secondary and higher education school at 145 Boulevard Malesherbes in the 17th arrondissement, Paris, France. Recognized as one of the most-prestigious high schools in France, it is also ranked as one of the best classe préparatoire aux écoles de commerce. Some of its former students have been among the most-influential personalities in the country, including Jacques Chirac, the former French President, and Pascal Lamy, the former president of the World Trade Organization since. Daft Punk musicians Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo met there in 1987. The poet Louis Aragon also attended Carnot.
The school has a long tradition of excellence, and has been regularly sending its graduates to the best schools in France and abroad:
- Polytechnique
- Centrale
- HEC
- ESSEC
- Sciences Po Paris
- EM Lyon
- LSE
- UCL
- KCL
- McGill University
Notable alumni
- Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, musicians and members of Daft Punk. The two met at the lycée.
- Maurice Bloch, anthropologist
- Jacques Chirac, former President of France
- Guy Debord, Situationist, author of The Society of the Spectacle and activist in the May 1968 events in France
- Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher in the post-structural tradition, friend and colleague of Michel Foucault.
- Thierry Jacquillat, former president of Paris-île de France Capital Economique and former vice president and Director of Pernod Ricard
- Dimitri Kitsikis, Geopolitician, Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, Honorary President, The Dimitri Kitsikis Public Foundation.
- Pascal Lamy, former president of the World Trade Organization from 2005 to 2013.
- Guy Môquet, French Communist militant
- Joseph Rovan, French philosopher and politician
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former French finance minister and former former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
