Lycée-Collège d'État Émile Letournel is a combined junior high school and senior high school/sixth-form college on the island of Saint-Pierre, in Saint Pierre and Miquelon. It was named after a famous French orthopaedic surgeon, Émile Letournel (1927-1994), native of Saint-Pierre.[1]
As of the 2016–2017 school year the institution had 161 junior high school students, 119 general senior high/sixth-form students, and 114 vocational high school students, totalling 394 students.[2]
Each year since 2009, the school has awarded a literary prize known as the Récit de l'Ailleurs (meaning "story from elsewhere", in which a jury of students vote for their favourite book from somewhere other than France.[3][4]
References
- ^ "Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon > Société." Ministry of the Overseas Territories, France. Retrieved on September 14, 2016.
- ^ "Lycée-collège d’Etat Emile LETOURNEL >Présentation." Lycée-Collège d'État Émile Letournel. Retrieved on September 14, 2016.
- ^ "Le prix "Récit de l'Ailleurs" fête ses 10 ans - Saint-Pierre et Miquelon la 1ère". Saint-Pierre et Miquelon la 1ère (in French). 22 January 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
- ^ "Prix Littéraire "Récit de l'Ailleurs"". Facebook.