Collège Sainte-Barbe
The Collège Sainte-Barbe is a former college in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France.
The Collège Sainte-Barbe was founded in 1460 on Montagne Sainte-Geneviève. It was until its closure in June 1999 the "oldest" identified college of Paris.
The Barbiste Spirit is kept alive through the Friendly Association of Old Barbistes, founded in 1820, recognized a public society since 1880, which is the oldest association of alumni of France, "l'Association Amicale des Anciens Barbistes".
Alumni
Former Barbists include:- Diogo de Gouveia
- Ignace de Loyola
- André de Gouveia
- St. François-Xavier, Roman Catholic missionary to India, China, and Southeast Asia
- Pierre Lefevre
- Guillaume Postel
- Achilles Statius
- Michel Adanson
- Jean Baptiste Louis Romé de Lisle, founder of crystallography
- Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier
- Eugène Scribe, dramatist and librettist
- Felix Dupanloup, bishop
- James Manby Gully, pioneer of hydrotherapy
- Warren De la Rue, British astronomer
- Gustave Eiffel, engineer
- Sarkis Balyan
- Arsène d'Arsonval, physicist and doctor
- Constantin Costa-Foru
- Alfred Dreyfus
- Jean Jaurès
- Émile Borel, mathematician
- Enrique Zóbel de Ayala, patriarch of the Filipino billionaire family of Zobel de Ayala
- Charles Péguy
- Louis Blériot Engineer and pioneer aviator
- Henri-George Clouzot, scenario writer
- the actors Michel Piccoli
- Claude Lelouch, scenario writers
- Bernard Kouchner
- François Berléand