Guided tour of Janson High School in Sailly

Name: Guided tour of Janson High School in Sailly
Start: 2022-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Lycée Janson de Sailly

Visit of the school, and presentation of physics experiences on old devices

Saturday 17 September 2022, 14:00Passed

Conditions

Reservation required

Registration

cdi@janson-de-sailly.fr

Martine Liagre

4 visits at 14h, 15h, 16h, 17h will be proposed. Visit of some heritage rooms, the courtyard of honor, ... some laboratories or cabinets. At the end of the visit, participants will be able to attend a presentation of physics experiments performed by our colleagues on old devices. The students of the art history option will take charge of a visit and welcome visitors.

About the location

Lycée Janson de Sailly

106 rue de la Pompe 75116 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

The Lycée Janson de Sailly opened its doors on October 13, 1884\. It embodies the wishes expressed by Alexandre-Emmanuel-François Janson in his will. In fact, this wealthy bourgeois bequeathed to the University «all the free money from my succession» at the expense of “Create in Paris an institution under the name of Collège Janson, where young people distinguished by their filial love and aged at least twelve will receive the education of the humanities.” The work was entrusted to the architect Charles Laisné with the mission of carrying out according to the wishes of Jules Ferry, then Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts, “the high school of new times … we want to install, as in this model high school, the vast courtyards, the beautiful shade, the light, the sun, everything that is needed for children as for plants, because they live first of all like them, of sun and open air”. Apart from the importance of buildings with iron and stone architecture, the overall decoration le