11 September 2014

Lycée Janson-de-Sailly, 16th arrondissement, Paris

Alexandre Emmanuel François Janson de Sailly (1785–1829) was a rich lawyer who disinherited his wife Marie-Jeanne after discovering she was having an affair. He left his money to the state for it to build something on the lines of the present Lycée Janson-de-Sailly, otherwise known simply as Janson or JDS. On the rue de la Pompe elevation are the busts of twenty-four writers, although a few are better known for other professions. Below I include all of the busts from rue de Longchamp, moving south.

Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869).

Abel-François Villemain (1780–1870).

Lazare Carnot (1753–1823).


Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814).

Jean de La Bruyère (1645–96).

Nicolas Boileau (1636–1711).

René Descartes (1596–1650).

Michel de Montaigne (1533–92).

Voltaire (born François-Marie Arouet) (1694–1778).

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704).

Jean de La Fontaine (1621–95).

Pierre Corneille (1606–94).

Jean Racine (1639–99).

Molière (born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622–73).

François Fénelon (1651–1715).

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78).


François de Malherbe (1555–1628).

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662).

Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707–88).

Montesquieu (1689–1755).

François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–48).

François Guizot (1787–1874).

Victor Cousin (1792–1867).

Victor Hugo (1802–85).

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