Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca)

French Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca)
Location
Casablanca Morocco
Information
Type	Private
Established	1958
Gender	Co-educational
Website	Official website

Lycée Lyautey is a French Lycée belonging to the French Mission in Casablanca, Morocco. It was named after Marshal Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey who was the Resident General in Morocco from 1912 to 1925. Lycée Lyautey is not only the most multicultural but also the most competitive school in Morocco. 96.51% of the class of 2008 passed the baccalauréat général (L, ES and S), where the French national average success rate was around 83.3%. 13% of the students passed the French baccalauréat général with the highest honours.

The Lycée also offers vocational and technology French Baccalaureates, which allows student to be more specialised in specific fields and be quickly inserted in the job market right after the successful completion of their Baccalaureate.

Courses

• General
• French literature
• Mathematics
• History
• Geography
• Earth sciences and Life sciences
• Physics
• Technology
• Visual arts
• Sports
• Social sciences
• Music (only for the classes of sixth and fifth grades)
• Languages:
  • French
  • Arabic
  • English
  • Spanish
  • German
• Optional subjects:
  • Latin
  • Film Studies
  • Fine arts
• Courses of the second cycle:
  • Literature
  • Philosophy
  • Economics
  • Sociology
  • Management
  • Law
  • English Literature

Notable alumni

See also: Category:Alumni of Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca)

• David Galula, French military officer and scholar
• Gad Elmaleh, humorist and comedian
• Jean Reno, comedian (real name Juan Moreno y Herrera Jiménez: www.imdb.com/name/nm0000606/)
• Fouad Laroui, economist and writer
• Laïla Marrakchi, movie director and director of Marock
• Mehdi Ben Barka, politician
• Mahdi ElMandjra, futurist, sociologist and economist
• Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan writer
• Philippe-Joseph Salazar
• Sidney Toledano, President and Chief Executive Officer of Christian Dior Couture
• Eric Besson French minister
• Just Fontaine, French football player and manager

Ali Benmakhlouf, philosopher, writer and professor

• Abigail Assor, journalist

External links

• Official website
• History.
• Site of the Embassy of France in Morocco
• List of professors by course

References

Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent French-language Wikipedia article, accessed May 29, 2006.

• http://www.lyceefr.org/lyautey/