Exhibition : A college named Pierre Loti

In this exhibition, thanks to exceptional archival documents
documents and a 3D animation that will present the evolution of the
the evolution of the building in a dynamic and educational way, you will discover
the history of the college which has seen most of the people of Rochefort pass through its doors over the last 190 years
most of the people of Rochefort, including the most famous writer, academician
and sailor Pierre Loti.
Emblematic place of the birth of his travelling spirit, the college
in 1862, is described in "Le Roman d'un enfant" as a "place of suffering
a "place of suffering". He was to prepare for the entrance exam to the Naval School
and then began his adventurous life. "It was my fate
definitively fixed, it was the future of travel and adventure that
It was the future of travel and adventure that was opening up for my seventeen year olds, who were eager for the unknown. The college
which became a high school in 1880, took his name after his death in 1924 and
and retains it today.

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