Institution libre du Sacré-Cœur

The Institution Libre du Sacré-Cœur is the oldest and most prestigious school of Tourcoing, next to Lille, France. Its current name is the Collège de Tourcoing (Tourcoing School).

1. History

This Institution was created in 1666 by the Récollets (a Catholic congregation), with permission from Philip IV, King of Spain, the Lord of Tourcoing, and the bishop of Tournai. It was a free grammar school. During the French Revolution, the establishment was closed from 1790 to 1802. The First Consul, Napoléon Bonaparte, allowed the Fathers Récollets to come back to Tourcoing. Tourcoing School, managed by headmaster-priest Albert Lecomte, erected new buildings in Gothic Revival architecture in 1853 and 1885. Since December 1853, the School has been at 111, rue de Lille. The Institution and classrooms are still there. After several arguments between the headmaster, bishop Henri Leblanc and the city of Tourcoing, about nominations for teachers' jobs, the school ceased to be financed by the city, became an independent school and was renamed "Free Institution of Sacred Heart" on 2 October 1882. During World War I, German soldiers arrested the headmaster, the priest Achille Leleu, because he protected his students against the requisitions. The religious staff left the establishment in 1982. The Free Institution of Sacred Heart is still considered one of the best schools in Lille's vicinity. In 2015, the Free Institution of Sacred Heart is ranked 1st in Nord secondary schools. The success rate at the Baccalaureate was 100%.

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Tourcoing (French: [tuʁkwɛ̃] ; Dutch: Toerkonje [tuːrˈkɔɲə]; West Flemish: Terkoeje; Picard: Tourco) is a city in northern France on the Belgian border. It is designated municipally as a commune within the department of Nord. Located to the north-northeast of Lille, adjacent to Roubaix, Tourcoing is the chef-lieu of two cantons and the fourth largest city in the French region of Hauts-de-France ranked by population with about 97,000 inhabitants. Together with the cities of Lille, Roubaix, Villeneuve-d'Ascq and eighty-six other communes, Tourcoing is part of four-city-centred metropolitan area inhabited by more than 1.1 million people: the Métropole Européenne de Lille. To a greater extent, Tourcoing belongs to a vast conurbation formed with the Belgian cities of Mouscron, Kortrijk and Tournai, which gave birth to the first European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation in January 2008, Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai with an aggregate of just over 2 million inhabitants.

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