Lycée Camille Sée (Paris)

The Lycée Camille Sée is a long, curved limestone building on Rue de Lota that hugs the bend of the street with rhythmic, repeated window bays. It began in nineteen thirty-four as a school dedicated to secondary education for girls, a rarity at the time. Camille Sée, the politician who gave the school its name, spent his career fighting to open higher education to women in France. During the Second World War, the building served as a holding center for deported Jewish families.