Lycée Claude-Bernard

Under the Occupation of Paris by the German forces, between June 17, 1940 and August 23, 1944, the lycée was requisitioned to be transformed into barracks for SS troops. The soldiers carry out their military exercises nearby, at the Parc des Princes. They also build a bunker in the lycée's basement, containing an infirmary; they have since been used to house the archives. Pupils were transferred to the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly, and the accommodation for Lycée officials and agents was used by the Germans, giving rise to compensation from April 1942 onwards, but at the cost of theft and damage. After the Liberation of Paris, the lycée is occupied by soldiers of the 2nd Armored Division led by Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque. A commemorative plaque in the lycée's hallway recalls the memory of eight deported Jewish students and another of 23 students and teachers who died for France.

Under the Occupation of Paris by the German forces, between June 17, 1940 and August 23, 1944, the lycée was requisitioned to be transformed into barracks for SS troops. The soldiers carry out their military exercises nearby, at the Parc des Princes. They also build a bunker in the lycée's basement, containing an infirmary; they have since been used to house the archives. Pupils were transferred to the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly, and the accommodation for Lycée officials and agents was used by the Germans, giving rise to compensation from April 1942 onwards, but at the cost of theft and damage. After the Liberation of Paris, the lycée is occupied by soldiers of the 2nd Armored Division led by Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque. A commemorative plaque in the lycée's hallway recalls the memory of eight deported Jewish students and another of 23 students and teachers who died for France.