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Coordinates: 48°48′13″N 2°09′19″E / 48.80361°N 2.15528°E / 48.80361; 2.15528

The Chapel of the Lycée

The Lycée Sainte-Geneviève (often nicknamed Ginette and sometimes BJ) is a private lycée, located in Versailles and providing preparatory classes for grandes écoles. It was founded in Paris, April 1854. Sainte-Geneviève is famous for having the highest success rates at the entrance exams of the most selective French Grandes Écoles: École Polytechnique, École des Hautes Études Commerciales, École Centrale Paris and École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris.^[1]

Famous alumni

Military

• Hubert Lyautey (1854-1934), Marshal of France
• Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (1889-1952), Marshal of France
• Antoine Béthouart (1889-1982), Compagnon de la Libération
• Henry de Bournazel (1898-1933)
• Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves (1901-1941), Compagnon de la Libération
• Philippe Leclerc de Hautecloque (1902-1947), Compagnon de la Libération and marshal of France (Marshall Leclerc)
• Pierre Segrétain (1909-1950), commander of the 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion
• Alain de Boissieu (1914-2006), Compagnon de la Libération and Chief of Staff of the French Army
• Tom Morel (1915-1944), Compagnon de la Libération
• Jean-Louis Battet (born in 1944), admiral, Chief of Staff of the French Navy from 2001 to 2005
• Édouard Guillaud (born in 1953), admiral, Chief of the Defence Staff since 2010

CEOs

• Pierre Gadonneix (born in 1943), CEO of Gaz de France from 1996 to 200, then CEO of EDF from 2004 to 2009
• Louis Gallois (born in 1944), CEO of SNCF, then CEO of EADS and CEO of Airbus
• Marc Tessier (born in 1946), former chairman of France Télévision
• Jean-Martin Folz (born in 1947), former chairman and CEO of PSA Peugeot Citroën
• Philippe Varin (born in 1953), CEO of PSA Peugeot Citroën since 2009
• Benoît Potier (born in 1957), CEO of Air liquide
• Édouard Michelin (1963-2006), former CEO of Michelin

Politicians

• Jean-François Deniau (1928-2007), statesman, diplomat, essayist and novelist ; member of the Académie française.
• Laurent Touvet (born in 1962), conseiller d'État, directeur des libertés publiques et des affaires juridiques au ministère de l'Intérieur
• Valérie Pécresse (born in 1967), Minister for Higher Education and Research
• Emmanuelle Mignon (born in 1968), civil servant and chief of staff of President Nicolas Sarkozy

Scientists

• Albert Jacquard (born in 1925), statistician, geneticist
• Xavier Le Pichon (né en 1937), geophysicist, professor at Collège de France, member of the Académie des Sciences
• Ivar Ekeland (né en 1944), mathematician
• Albert Ducrocq (1921-2001), scientific, journalist and essayist
• Stanislas Dehaene (né en 1965), mathematician and cognitivist, professor at Collège de France, member of the Académie des Sciences
• Elyès Jouini (né en 1965), economist, member of the Institut universitaire de France

Others

• Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852-1905), explorer
• Blessed Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916), explorer and Catholic religious
• Prince Hubert de Broglie (1903-1972)
• Yves du Manoir (1904-1928), rugby player
• Jean Bastien-Thiry (1927-1963), attempted to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle
• Bernard Fresson (1931-2002), cinema actor
• Philippe Sollers (born in 1936), writer
• Patrick Peugeot (born in 1937), president of the Cimade
• Bernard Ramanantsoa (born in 1948), dean of HEC
• Bernard de Montmorillon (born in 1950), dean of Paris Dauphine University from 1999 to 2007
• Mac Lesggy (born in 1962), scientific journalist
• Julien Coupat (born in 1974), political activist

External links

• http://www.bginette.com Official website
• http://www.bginette.org Alumni website

1. ^ http://www.letudiant.fr/etudes/classes-prepa/classement-le-palmares-des-prepas-de-l-etudiant-11637.html