Lycée Albert Sarraut

The Lycée Albert Sarraut was a French high school in Hanoi, Vietnam during the French colonial period. It was one of 69 high schools founded by the French in their colonies worldwide, named for French Albert Sarraut. The school offered high standard academic programs for students between the ages of 11 and 18. The explicit purpose of this program was to create foreigners who thought in French and like Frenchmen. Even behind the Iron Curtain—in Bulgaria, Poland and North Vietnam — French teachers are vigorously shaping minds to the French way of thought. [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,871349,00.html The France's Culture Corps and the Lycées system] ]

Former pupils

Many well-known Vietnamese scholars and leaders graduated from Lycée Albert Sarraut. Among them were:
*Hoang Xuan Han [ [http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho%C3%A0ng_Xu%C3%A2n_H%C3%A3n Hoang Xuan Han] ]
*Nguyen Tien Lang [ [http://www.truyen-thong.org/so13/22.html Nguyen Tien Lang on Truyen Thong.org] ]
*Hoàng Văn Chí
*Vo Nguyen Giap
*Truong Chinh
*Joseph Trần Lê
*Nguyễn Sĩ Dinh
*Bửu Lộc
*Bửu Thọ
*Nguyễn Văn Chi
*Paulus Hiếu
*Trần Lệ Xuân (Madame Ngô Đình Nhu)
*Trần Mai
*Nguyễn Kim Hồng
*Nguyễn Kim Hải
*Nguyễn Mạnh Tường: Lawyer, participator in the Nhân Văn affair
*Marie Điện
*Vu Bang
*Souphanouvong

The name of the school is now Trần Phú [ [http://www.cinet.gov.vn/vanhoa/Vanhoc/vh-vietnam/tacgia/20/van/tacpham/b/vubang_40namnoilao/c2chutai,chutai.htm Vu Bang] ] .

*Nhất Linh Nguyên Tuong Tam - the leader of Tu Luc Van Doan, and Khai Hung Tran Khanh Giu - an acclaimed Vietnamese novelist who later was killed by the Viet Minh also received their education here. [ [http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/dang/webvn/ekhaihun.htm Tu Luc Van Doan - Self Sufficient Group] ]

*From the Vietnamese Communist Party, General Vo Nguyen Giap [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3821/is_200310/ai_n9337860/pg_6 Senior General Vo Nguyen Giap remembers - Journal of Third World Studies, Fall 2003 by Currey, Cecil B, page 1] ] ,and the former Secretary General Truong Chinh [ [http://www.answers.com/topic/truong-chinh Truong Chinh (1909-1988)] ] had graduated from this lycée.

There were Princes from Laos who also were educated here, among them were:

*H.R.H. Prince (Anga Sadet Chao Fa Jaya) Kamabanapana [Kham-Phan Panya] . b. at Luang Prabang, 29th March 1908 (s/o Mom Kamala), educ. Lycée Albert Sarraut, Hanoi,

*H.R.H. Prince (Anga Sadet Chao Fa Jaya) Kamauva [Kham-Mao] . b. at Luang Prabang, 23rd September 1911 (s/o Mom Kamabuwa), educ. Lycée Albert Sarraut, Hanoi

*H.R.H. Prince (Anga Sadet Chao Fa Jaya) Kamahinga [Kham-Hing] . b. at Wat Nong, Luang Prabang, 15th July 1918 (s/o Mom Kamala), educ. Luang Prabang and Lycée Albert Sarraut, Hanoi (B.Phil. 1939). [ [http://4dw.net/royalark/Laos/laos2.htm Royal Laos] ]

References

[1] . [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,871349,00.html The France's Culture Corps and the Lycées system]

[2] . [http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho%C3%A0ng_Xu%C3%A2n_H%C3%A3n Hoang Xuan Han] [3] . [http://www.truyen-thong.org/so13/22.html Nguyen Tien Lang on Truyen Thong.org]

[4] . [http://www.cinet.gov.vn/vanhoa/Vanhoc/vh-vietnam/tacgia/20/van/tacpham/b/vubang_40namnoilao/c2chutai,chutai.htm Vu Bang]

[5] . [http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/dang/webvn/ekhaihun.htm Tu Luc Van Doan - Self Sufficient Group]

[6] [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3821/is_200310/ai_n9337860/pg_6 Senior General Vo Nguyen Giap remembers - Journal of Third World Studies, Fall 2003 by Currey, Cecil B, page 1]

[7] . [http://www.answers.com/topic/truong-chinh Truong Chinh (1909-1988)]

[8] . [http://4dw.net/royalark/Laos/laos2.htm Royal Laos]

External links

* [http://philippe.millour.free.fr/Photos/Indochine/pages/Sarraut_Pierre.htm Photo of classes at Lycée Albert Sarraut in 1939-1940]

* [http://www.bucknell.edu/Beaucarnot/visit.asp?s=11080&v=& Lycée Albert Sarraut]

* [http://www.amis-mlf.org/etablissements-visualiser.php?ID_ets=751&nav=1 Lycée Albert Sarraut in Hanoi, Vietnam]