beds (234 single rooms, 61 double rooms) and a chapel. It also has a cafeteria, in addition to the dining hall, and classrooms are available to students outside of their normal hours of use. The campus also has sports facilities: a sports field and two multi-sports gymnasiums (ultimate, basketball, volleyball, badminton, etc.), a gym, a billiard room and a climbing wall. Students have two mandatory hours of sports per week and the sports association allows access to its facilities at noon and in the evening. Notable alumni Claude Allègre - (b. 1937), former Minister, geochemist Charles Baudelaire - (1821–1867), writer Joseph Bertrand - (1822–1900), mathematician, Academician Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux - (1636–1711), writer, Academician Patrice de Mac Mahon - (1808-1893), French President Fortuné du Boisgobey - (1821–1891), writer Georges Charpak - (1924–2010), physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1992 Emmanuel Chabrier - (1841-1894), composer Hubert Curien - (1924–2005), physicist, former Minister of Research Denis Diderot - (1713–1784), writer and philosopher Charles-François Dupuis - (1742–1809), author Pierre-Gilles de Gennes - (1932–2007), physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1991 Charles Gounod - (1818–1893), composer Jean-Martin Charcot - (1825–1893), neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology Joris-Karl Huysmans - (1848–1907), novelist and art critic Eugène Marin Labiche - (1815–1888), dramatist Henri Lebesgue - (1875–1941), mathematician Montesquieu - (1689–1755), writer and philosopher Louis Néel - (1904–2000), physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1970 Louis Pasteur - (1822–1895), chemist and microbiologist, Academician Charles Perrault - (1628–1703), writer, Academician Jean Racine - (1639–1699), dramatist, Academician Alain Robbe-Grillet - (1922–2008), writer and cinematographer, Academician Alexandre Rousselin de Saint-Albin - (1773–1847), politician Charles de Saint-Évremond - (1613–1703), writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - (1900–1944), writer and aviator Claude Simon - (1913–2005), writer, Nobel Prize in Literature 1985 Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord - (1754–1838), statesman Yves Tanguy - (1900–1955), surrealist painter René Thom - (1923–2002), mathematician, Fields Medal 1958 Ahmed Vefik Pasha - (1823–1891), Ottoman statesman, diplomat, and playwright André Weil - (1906–1998), mathematician Émile Zola - (1840–1902), writer Jules Massenet - (1842–1912), composer Jean-Luc Lagardère - (1928-2003), businessman and founder of Lagardère Notable teachers Maurice Goldring, English professor Octave Gréard, academic Jacques Hadamard, mathematician Léopold Lacour, rhetoric professor, lecturer and playwright Notes References L'ancien collège d'Harcourt et le lycée Saint-Louis, Bouquet, H.L., Paris, Delalin frères, 1891. Du collège d'Harcourt, 1280, au lycée Saint-Louis, 1980, Fusellier, E., Euvrard, M., Paris, A.P.E. du lycée Saint-Louis, 1980. Septième centenaire !, Humblot, H., in Bulletin d'information de L'association des