Screening and discussion on the film «Provinoise School in resistance, schoolchildren and teachers united in the fight against the occupier»

Name: Screening and discussion on the film «Provinoise School in resistance, schoolchildren and teachers united in the fight against the occupier»
Start: 2023-09-16T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Lycée Thibaut de Champagne - Ancien palais des comtes de Champagne et Brie (cl. MH)

Screening of the film "L'École provinoise en résistance, écoliers et instituteurs unis dans la lutte contre l'occupant", directed by the high school students who won the National Resistance Competitio

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Free entry

Lycée Thibaut de Champagne

Screening of the film «L'École provinoise en résistance, schoolchildren and teachers united in the fight against the occupier», directed by the high school students winners of the National Competition of the Resistance, 1st departmental and 1st prize of the Academy of Créteil in the competition «The Resistance and the School». Discussion at the end of the screening.

About the location

Lycée Thibaut de Champagne - Ancien palais des comtes de Champagne et Brie (cl. MH)

3 rue du Collège 77160 Provins

Seine-et-Marne
Île-de-France

The current Lycée Polyvalent Thibaut de Champagne occupies the buildings of the former palace of the Counts of Champagne.
Provins High School is a place steeped in history. Tombs uncovered during the 1960s reveal a Merovingian presence. The discovery on this occasion of a seventh-century buckle plate decorated with silver filigrees, since deposited in the museum, represents the oldest historical trace concerning Provins. A fortified building had to occupy the rocky spur quite early, as the lower room of the chapel, dating from the 11th century, attests, however it was not until 1161 that the palace was mentioned in an act by the count of Champagne Henri the Liberal (that is, the generous one).
In the 12th century, Provins occupied one of the first commercial places in Europe, thanks to the Champagne fairs established under the protection of the counts. Henri the Liberal, one of the greatest lords of the kingdom, built a palace whose magnificence contrasts with the austere military cons