Construction et décoration des lycées sous les Trente Glorieuses : approche archivistique

Even though the collections of the Éducation nationale (France’s Ministry of National Education) are likely to be the most appropriate to approach the question of lycées (French high schools) construction history in France, other sources held at the Archives nationales de France can also make a very useful contribution to documenting this field of study: the archives produced by the administration of the Bâtiments civils (Civil Buildings) and the administration of the École des Beaux-Arts allow to approach, from their own perspective, the question of construction, layout and decoration of high schools during the thirty years of post-war economic growth in France. A review of these collections, illustrated by two examples of high schools built during the same period, in Arcachon and in Marseilles, enables us to appreciate their historiographical interest, in terms of both their rich articulation and the new questions arising from research