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Lycée Franco-Mexicain / Liceo Franco Mexicano
Address
Polanco Campus: Homero 1521, Col. Polanco, Delegación Miguel Hidalgo, México, D.F., C.P. 11560 Coyoacán Campus: Calle Xico 24, Col. Oxtopulco Universidad, Delegación Coyoacán, México, D.F. C.P. 04310 Cuernavaca Campus: Francisco I. Madero 315, Ocotepec, Cuernavaca, Morelos, C.P. 62220 Mexico City and Cuernavaca Mexico
Coordinates	19°26′14.7″N 99°12′21.5″W / 19.437417°N 99.205972°W / 19.437417; -99.205972 (Polanco Campus) 19°20′36.9″N 99°10′48.7″W / 19.343583°N 99.180194°W / 19.343583; -99.180194 (Coyoacán Campus) 18°57′57.3″N 99°13′13.9″W / 18.965917°N 99.220528°W / 18.965917; -99.220528 (Escuela/École Molière de Cuernavaca)
Information
Type	Primary and secondary education
Grades	K-12
Website	lfm.edu.mx

The Liceo Franco Mexicano A.C. or the Lycée Franco-Mexicain is a private French school with three campuses. It is one of the largest French lycées in the world with over 3,000 students in its two Mexico City campuses: Polanco in Miguel Hidalgo in northern Mexico City, and Coyoacán in southern Mexico City.

There is a third campus, École Molière de Cuernavaca (Escuela Molière), in the city of Ocotepec, Cuernavaca, Morelos.

History

The Lycée was established in 1937 so that the extensive French community in Mexico could give a French education and culture to their family and stay linked to their motherland. Since then the school has evolved a lot and the number of students has increased considerably. Nowadays the school receives mostly French-Mexican and Mexican students, but also children of many diplomats from all over the world, the children of all the French expatriate workers and many other students from other European countries.

Structure

Before the equivalent of high school, the school is divided into a "French" and a "bilingual" section. In the first one, all the courses are given in French (except language courses). In the other section, the classes are taught in Spanish, but they include a French language course. By high school, students of the "bilingual" section are proficient in the language and the two sections are mixed together under the French system and all courses are in French.

Academic performance

The academic level of the school is extremely good and it is recognized as one of the best schools in Mexico, especially recognized for its high level of mathematics (on the same level than the Mexican-Japanese Lyceum and the Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt). The results of the Baccalauréat are especially good, with 97% of students having passed the exam. After graduating, the students follow several paths. The majority are admitted into prestigious Mexican universities, however a good amount also follow superior studies in French universities and the so-called "classes prepa". There is also an increasing number of students who decide to study in other countries (US, Switzerland, UK, etc.).

Architecture

The school building was designed by Vladimir Kaspé.

The National Institute of Fine Arts (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, INBA) declared that the original building has artistic value. The Secretariat for Housing and Urban Development of the Government of Mexico City (Secretaría de Desarrollo Urbano y Vivienda del Gobierno del Distrito Federal; SEDUVI) declared that the original building has heritage value.

Notable alumni

Artists, scientists, CEOs, academics and politicians (as former Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jorge Castañeda Gutman and acclaimed German historian Friedrich Katz) all studied at the LFM, among many other distinguished alumni.

• Arielle Dombasle

Angélica Aragón

Jorge Castañeda Gutman

Justo Sierra

Friedrich Katz

Elena Poniatowska

Daniel SanMateo

Nicole Reich de Polignac

Jorge Volpi

Thalía

Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo

Anna Fusoni

See also

• Agence pour l'enseignement français à l'étranger
• Baccalauréat
• French immigration to Mexico

Further reading

• "Full Documentation Fiche 2007 Liceo Franco Mexicano" (Archive). Docomomo International.
• Hernández, Mirtha. "Trabaja el Liceo en renovación de pacto." Diario Reforma. 17 December 2013. (in Spanish)
• "Liceo Franco-Mexicano", Construcción Moderna, México, enero 1951. (in Spanish)
• "Liceo Franco-Mexicano", Arquitectura/México, N°. 35, México. (in Spanish)
• Dumas, Claude. Justo Sierra y el Liceo Franco Mexicano: sobre la educación en México, 1861 1862. 1967. See page at Google Books. (in Spanish)
• Liceo Franco-Mexicano, Eduardo J. Guibault, Luis Méndez. Invitación, 1856: Exámenes de los alumnos del Liceo Franco Mexicano. 1856. See page at Google Books. (in Spanish)
• Pecquerie, Marie. "Lycée franco-mexicain : une convention sur mesure avec la France ?" (Archive). La Voix de France. Monday 3 February 2014. Updated Tuesday 4 February 2014. (in French)
• Pecquerie, Marie with the Agence France Presse (AFP). "Lycée franco-mexicain : les enseignants en grève contre le déconventionnement" (Archive). La Voix de France. 6 December 2013. (in French)
• Pecquerie, Marie. "Lycée franco-mexicain : quel avenir après l'AEFE ?" (Archive). La Voix de France. 26 November 2013. Updated 9 December 2013. (in French)
• Figadere, Alain. "Lycée Franco-Mexicain – Attendez vous au pire !" (Archive). Le Grand Journal du Méxique. 24 November 2013. (in French)

References

1. "Planteles" (in Spanish). Lycée Franco-Mexicain. Retrieved 2024-03-15. Av. Homero 1521, Col. Polanco, Alcaldía Miguel Hidalgo, CDMX, C.P. 11560 Polanco Calle Xico 24, Col. Oxtopulco Universidad, Alcaldía Coyoacán, CDMX, C.P. 04310 Coyoacán - French version: "Les Campus".
2. Home. Lycée Franco-Mexicain. Retrieved on March 14, 2014. "polanco Homero 1521, Col. Polanco, México, D.F., C.P. 11560" and "coyoacán Calle Xico 24, Col. Oxtopulco Universidad, México, D.F. C.P. 04310" and "cuernavaca Francisco I. Madero 315, Ocotepec, Morelos, C.P. 6220"
3. Turner, Jane. Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean art (Grove encyclopedias of the arts of the Americas, Grove Library of World Art). Grove's Dictionaries, 2000. ISBN 1884446043, 9781884446047. p. 382 (Another view) "Other examples of his educational architecture, notable for their formal austerity, include the Liceo Franco-Mexicano (1950) and the Facultad de Econ- omia (1953; with J. Hanhausen), Ciudad Universitaria, both in Mexico City."
4. "Full Documentation Fiche 2007 Liceo Franco Mexicano" (Archive). Docomomo International. p. 2/12. Retrieved on May 14, 2014.
5. "Cinq questions à... Arielle Dombasle." Canoe.ca. 08-03-2007. Retrieved on March 14, 2014. "Arielle Dombasle passe son enfance au Mexique où elle étudie dans un lycée franco-mexicain."
6. Canal Judicial "Más que una historia": Angélica Aragón part 3.
7. Ai Camp, Roderic. Mexico's Mandarins: Crafting a Power Elite for the Twenty-first Century. University of California Press, 2002. ISBN 0520233433, 9780520233430. p. 262. "A younger version of Fuentes is Jorge G. CastañedaCastañeda has spent much of his life outside Mexico,Even when he completed his secondary and preparatory studies in Mexico City in the late 1960s, it was at the French Lycee, subsidized by the French government."
8. Tenenbaum, Barbara A. "Payno and Mexico's Financial Reform." In: Peloso, Vincent C. and Barbara A. Tenenbaum (editors). Liberals, Politics, and Power: State Formation in Nineteenth-century Latin America. University of Georgia Press (EN), 1996. ISBN 0820318000, 9780820318004. p. 233 "Justo Sierra Méndez, for example, received his education at the Liceo-Franco Mexicano in Mexico City"
9. Haffenstangel, Renata von. México, el exilio bien temperado. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1 de enero de 1995. ISBN 9683644481, 9789683644480. p. 350. "Aquí Friedrich Katz obtuvo su bachillerato en el Liceo Franco-Mexicano en 1945."
10. Cherem S., Silvia (13 May 2012). Reforma (ed.). "El secreto de Elena" (Artículo) (in Spanish). Sección Opinión: Periódico Reforma. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
11. Schuessler, Michael Karl. Elena Poniatowska: An Intimate Biography. University of Arizona Press (EN), 2007. ISBN 0816525013, 9780816525010. p. 29. "In an interview, Elena provided some curious details regarding her elementary education from the perspective of a newly arrived little girl:Afterwards, I attended the Liceo Franco Mexicano with my sister Kitzia, but she did not like"
12. "Thalía Biografia" (Archivo). Univisión. Consultado el 14 de mayo de 2014.
13. "6 membres du Ministère des Relations Extérieures (SRE) distingués dans l'ordre de la Légion d'Honneur".
14. "45 años de moda" (in Spanish). El Universal. 22 May 2011. Retrieved 19 November 2014.

External links

• Lycée Franco-Mexicain (in Spanish)
• Lycée Franco-Mexicain (in French)
• Escuela Moliere (in Spanish)

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