Lycée privé Sainte-Geneviève

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

Lycée privé Sainte-Geneviève

Motto	Servir (French)
Motto in English	To Serve
Type	Private, Catholic
Established	1854
Affiliation	Jesuit
Location	Versailles, France
Website	BGinette.com

The Lycée Sainte-Geneviève is a private lycée, located in Versailles and providing preparatory classes for grandes écoles. It was founded in Paris, April 1854. It is often nicknamed Ginette and sometimes BJ, standing for Boite à Jèzes - Box of Jesuits.

Academics

Sainte-Geneviève is famous for having the highest success rates at the entrance exams of the most selective French Grandes Écoles in the fields of engineering – École Polytechnique, Mines ParisTech, École Centrale Paris – and business – HEC Paris, ESSEC Business School and ESCP Europe.^[1]

Ginette provides PC/PC*, MP/MP*, PT/PT*, PSI*, ECS and BCPST classes.

Notable 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 1944), admiral, Chief of Staff of the French Navy from 2001 to 2005
• Édouard Guillaud (born 1953), admiral, Chief of the Defence Staff since 2010

CEOs

• Pierre Gadonneix (born 1943), CEO of Gaz de France from 1996 to 2000, then CEO of EDF from 2004 to 2009
• Louis Gallois (born 1944), CEO of SNCF, then CEO of EADS and CEO of Airbus
• Marc Tessier (born 1946), former chairman of France Télévisions
• Jean-Martin Folz (born 1947), former chairman and CEO of PSA Peugeot Citroën
• Philippe Varin (born 1953), CEO of PSA Peugeot Citroën (2009-2014)
• Benoît Potier (born 1957), CEO of Air Liquide
• Édouard Michelin (1963–2006), former CEO of Michelin
• Tidjane Thiam, CEO of Crédit Suisse

Politicians

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

Scientists

• Albert Jacquard (1925–2013), statistician, geneticist
• Xavier Le Pichon (born 1937), geophysicist, professor at Collège de France, member of the Académie des Sciences
• Ivar Ekeland (born 1944), mathematician
• Albert Ducrocq (1921–2001), scientific, journalist and essayist
• Stanislas Dehaene (born 1965), mathematician and cognitivist, professor at Collège de France, member of the Académie des Sciences
• Elyès Jouini (born 1965), economist, member of the Institut universitaire de France

Others

• Tirso de Olazábal, Count of Arbelaiz (1842-1921), politician
• 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 1936), writer
• Patrick Peugeot (born 1937), president of the Cimade
• Bernard Ramanantsoa (born 1948), dean of HEC Paris from 1996 to 2015
• Bernard de Montmorillon (born 1950), dean of Paris Dauphine University from 1999 to 2007
• Mac Lesggy (born 1962), scientific journalist
• Julien Coupat (born 1974), political activist

References

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External links

• Official website
• Alumni website