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8 unusual facts about Sceaux


Arnoux system

Arnoux was the chief engineer of the Ligne de Sceaux which was originally built with very tight bends in the area around Sceaux.

Bernard de Bury

His works continued to be staged during the festivities given in Versailles, Sceaux, and Fontainebleau for more than thirty-five years.

Guy Hocquenghem

Guy Hocquenghem was born in the suburbs of Paris and was educated at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Jean Giraudoux

Giraudoux studied at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux and, upon graduation, traveled extensively in Europe.

Jean-Jacques Champin

Jean-Jacques Champin, a French painter in water-colours and lithographer, was born at Sceaux in 1796.

Liberal Jewish Movement of France

Since 2005, the South MJLF is also installed in the center of the town of Sceaux (98 rue Houdan).

Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine

Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 31 March 1670 - Sceaux, 14 May 1736) was a legitimised son of the French king Louis XIV and his official mistress, Madame de Montespan.

Michel Winock

He started his career in secondary school teaching at the lycée in Montpellier, then at the Lycée Hoche in Versailles and the lycée Lakanal in Sceaux.


Édouard Depreux

After serving as a member of the Sceaux commune council in 1935, and as a council member for Seine (1938–1941), he joined the French Resistance in the fight against the Nazi German military occupation, and held a high-ranking position in the SFIO executive committee, being the editor of the illegal newspaper Le Populaire.

Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

She spent much time at Sceaux, at the court of the duchesse du Maine, where she contracted a close friendship with the president Hénault.


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