took place the context of broader urban remodeling of the neighborhood around rue Saint-Jacques, also including the rebuilding of the Sorbonne (1884-1901, architect Henri Paul Nénot) and the extension of what is now the Panthéon campus of Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University (1891-1897, architect Ernest Lheureux). During World War I, the neighborhood was hit by Paris Gun shells, known to Parisians as . One shell tore through the ceiling of the main entrance hall on , and another left a large hole in the pavement of rue Saint-Jacques in front of the 's entrance on . During World War II, Jacques Lusseyran founded the resistance group Volontaires de la Liberté, in which a number of his fellow Louis-le-Grand students participated. The last significant new building project was a new auditorium (), located in the southeastern corner of the premises and completed in the late 1950s. Louis-le-Grand had its share of May 68 turmoil and subsequent violence between far-left and far-right student factions. On , it hosted the general assembly of the high-school students' action committees () which called for a general strike. On Jean Tiberi, a gaullist member of parliament who would later become the mayor of Paris, was assaulted during a visit of the . A hand grenade exploded inside its premises in early May 1969. A collection of the school's old scientific instruments was curated from 1972 and is now managed autonomously as the . Operations Louis-le-Grand has about 1,800 students, nearly a tenth of which are non-French from more than 40 countries. About half of these are enrolled in high school, and the other half in the . Its boarding capacity is of 340 inside the building. Together with its longstanding rival the Lycée Henri-IV, Louis-le-Grand has long been the only French that is exempted from the scheme of location-based enrollment known as the , even after the introduction in 2008 of the nationwide application known as . This exemption has been criticized as a breach of territorial equality and a device for the self-perpetuation of French elites. It was decided to reform it in 2022. Notable alumni Louis-le-Grand has long been considered to play an important role in the education of French elites. In 1762, just before the college's nationalization, scholar Jean-Baptiste-Jacques Élie de Beaumont wrote: "The Jesuit College of Paris has for a long time been a state nursery, the most fertile in great men." Many