Sainte-Barbe, the most celebrated of the free colleges of Paris, sends its pupils to the course of instruction at the Lycee Descartes. Sainte-Barbe was founded in 1460 by the Abbe Lenormand, and reorganized after the Revolution by Delaneau: it stands in the Place du Pantheon, on a small plot of ground, and is so thickly surrounded by buildings that the play-ground is not even large enough for the pupils to move about in. The younger among them are therefore sent to the branch of the school at Fontenay-aux-Roses, a stately chateau with spacious grounds. Both Ignatius Loyola, who founded the order of Jesus, and Calvin, who did his best to destroy it, were educated at Sainte-Barbe, as were also in more modern times Eugene Scribe, the singer Nourrit, the celebrated painter in water-colors Eugene Lamy, and General Trochu. The present director of Sainte-Barbe is M. Dubief, formerly inspector of the Academy of Paris, and who succeeded in 1865 the lamented M. Labrouste, to whose untiring exertions Sainte-Barbe owes in great part the high reputation it has enjoyed in recent times. On the Boulevard St. Michel, on the spot where once stood the old College d'Harcourt, is the Lycee St. Louis, now called, after the famous mathematician, the Lycee Monge. Although the Lycee Monge is specially devoted to scientific training, it has numbered among its pupils Charles Gounod the composer and Egger the Hellenist. In the rear of the Pantheon, on the site of the abbey of Ste. Genevieve, founded by Clovis in 510, stands the Lycee Corneille, formerly called the Lycee Napoleon, and before that the College Henri IV. To the archaeologist the cellars, the kitchens, the chapel and the old tower of the twelfth century cannot fail to prove of the greatest interest, while the remainder of the structure, built during the reign of Louis XIV., makes this unquestionably the finest of the lyceums of Paris. At the Lycee Corneille were educated Casimir Delavigne (whose bust by David d'Angers adorns the interior), Sainte-Beuve, Haussmann, Alfred de Musset, St. Marc Girardin, Emile Augier, Remusat, the prince de Joinville and the dukes of Nemours, Aumale, Montpensier and Chartres. The three lyceums above mentioned are on the left bank, the remaining two on the right bank, of the Seine. In the Rue Caumartin, near the Havre railway-station, on the site of the Capuchins' convent, stands the Lycee Condorcet, or, as it was called until recently, the Lycee Bonaparte. All the pupils are day scholars, and most of them come from the adjacent wealthy district of the Chaussee d'Antin, the Boulevards and the Madeleine. Among the pupils of this aristocratic educational establishment may be named J. J. Ampere, Alexandre Dumas _fils_, Adolphe Adam the composer, Edmond and Jules de Goncourt the novelists, Alphonse Karr, Henry Monnier, Nadar, Taine, Eugene Sue; the mulatto Schaelcher, now Senator of France; the celebrated Jesuit Father Ravignan, and the poet Theodore de Banville.