In Situ (Apr 2021)
Le fonds d’archives du lycée Pierre-de-Fermat à Toulouse
Abstract
The lycée Pierre-de-Fermat’s archives were collected in Toulouse following restructuring works in the high school buildings, during which the conservation of the archives had to be outsourced before they were moved to new premises. The archives départementales de la Haute-Garonne (the “Regional Archives of Haute-Garonne”) intervened from 2017, during the repatriation of the archives to the new high school premises, to carry out on site, for almost two years, operations of sorting, classification, regulatory eliminations and to transfer the remaining archives to the Regional Archives. At the end of these operations, more than 50 linear meters of documents were added to the lycée Pierre-de-Fermat’s archival fonds that were already preserved in the Regional Archives. The transfer consists of documents relating to the life of the school between 1855 and 2011. Particularly notable are the documents produced on the occasion of the high school bicentenary (1806-2006), a collection of class pictures from 1903 to 2011, as well as documents regarding illustrious figures who attended the institution (Georges Canguilhem, Georges Pompidou, Bernard Maris). This collection operation was remarkable, in the sense that the lycée Pierre-de-Fermat is one of the oldest and most prestigious public education institutions in Toulouse. Indeed, the high school is directly, and with almost no breach in continuity, descended from the Collège des Jésuites, authorised by edict of King Henri II of France, promulgated in Nantes in 1551 and confirmed on 19 December 1566. The high school has appealed to the local intellectual elite and has constantly made significant contributions to the training of senior public administration managers, since the creation, during the reign of Louis-Philippe, of upper grades intended to prepare candidates for the “Grandes écoles”, French prestigious higher education institutions.
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