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Ensemble Scolaire Saint Michel de Picpus

Catholic school in Paris, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ21427570 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ensemble Scolaire Saint Michel de Picpus is a Roman Catholic private school system in the Paris metropolitan area. It has a preschool/nursery (maternelle) and elementary school in the 12th arrondissement of Paris. It has two junior-senior high (collège-lycée) campuses: one in the 12th arrondissement of Paris and one in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne.

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“Ensemble Scolaire Saint Michel de Picpus” enters the record as catholic school in Paris, France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ensemble, Scolaire and Saint can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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“Ensemble Scolaire Saint Michel de Picpus” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ensemble, Scolaire and Saint provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21427570. Authority coordinates are 48.842, 2.397. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ensemble Scolaire Saint Michel de Picpus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.