In the 19th century, lycées experienced ambivalent feelings towards the cities that harboured them, ranging from attraction to rejection. Cities offered many resources to schools, on the other hand they caused threatening damage to the health, safety and moral standards of the pupils, as well as to the course of their studies. For a long time, schools struggled to put forward these conflictual relationships gradually died down. Towards the end of the cities, lycées and cities became real partners with an increasing number of contracts between the two. Because of its exemplary nature, the case of the lycées in Paris illustrate this slow evolution.
history of education; schools cultures; school architecture
