Lemonnier Institute – Wikipedia

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The entry of the Lemonnier Institute

History and status

Foundation	1925
Type	High school

Administration

Academy	Caen Academy

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L’ Lemonnier Institute is a private general, technological, professional and agricultural high school located in Caen, Normandy ^{[ first ]} . It was created in 1962 after being an orphanage and a professional institute ^{[ 2 ]} .

The Institute offers several training courses in general, technological, professional and agricultural sectors. These training courses cover the school levels of the 4 ^th to bac+3 ^{[ 3 ]} .

The general and technological training proposed include the Bac S and the BAC STI2D.

To help agricultural training, the establishment’s gardens are equipped with greenhouses.

The Institute offers a boarding school. On the Caen site, the establishment offers, in a room of 1 to 4 beds, 170 places in boys’ boarding school and 50 places in boarding schools. ^{[ 4 ]}

The classification is established on three criteria: the success rate in the bac, the proportion of first students who obtain the baccalaureate having made the last two years of their education in the establishment, and the added value (calculated from the social origin of students, their age and their results at the national patent diploma) ^{[ 6 ]} .

The orphanage [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The February 2, 1842 , an orphanage is founded by Father Le Venneur in the Saint-Gilles parish ^{[ 7 ]} . Established in an old abbey farm at the ladies ^{[ 7 ]} , the establishment is presented as an “agricultural and industrial colony” ^{[ 8 ]} . He aims to get out of the poor from misery and prevent him from falling into begging. Located north of Place Saint-Gilles, in an enclosure of 3 hectares of gardens and laborerable lands ^{[ 8 ]} , the orphanage consists of four buildings organized around a large courtyard ^{[ 7 ]} . Despite the support of the public authorities, the establishment Le Venneur quickly experienced significant financial difficulties, which does not prevent Father Le Venneur from enlarging the establishment. Living conditions are lamentable.

During the cholera epidemic of 1873, the orphanage was hard. In December 1875 , the Caen child labor monitoring commission inspects the establishment for the first time. According to the report, the orphanage is “a kind of perversion of charity”. Support for the establishment weakened and, in 1876, the prefect organized a first surprise visit to the orphanage. The report of this inspection is very critical. The hygiene conditions are awful and the children work up to ten hours a day, leaving too little time for the study. Following a report by the Caen academy inspector, a prefectural decree of the October 16, 1880 orders the closure of the establishment. The Saint-Gilles orphanage is transformed into an industrial school. She closed in 1924 ^{[ 8 ]} .

The Professional Institute [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

In 1926 ^{[ 8 ]} , a small group of Salesians from Guernsey takes over the premises, owned by the diocese of Bayeux, and founds “the professional institute Monseigneur Lemonnier”, named Thomas-Paul-Henri Lemonnier, bishop of Bayeux who died in 1927. School offers training for shoemakers, tailors, carpenters and gardeners. It also has carpentry, general mechanical and electricity workshops.

In 1944, the locals were destroyed during the Battle of Caen. THE May 23, 1957 , the foundation stone of the new premises, located further northeast in the old clos des Coutures, is laid. The establishment was opened in 1962.

In 2012, Eric Moisset, the ex-director of the establishment, and an architect, Jean-Michel Hivonnet, were sentenced by the Caen Criminal Court to eight months suspended prison and put to the test for two years For scam and complicity towards the Lemonnier Institute. They had set up a system of false invoices to defraud the Lemonnier Institute in the amount of more than 150,000 € € ^{[ 9 ]} . They were then released from all the counts by the Caen Court of Appeal by a judgment dated May 14, 2014 .