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Lycée Français de Gavà Bon Soleil

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ25057960 ↗
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Lycée International Barcelona - Bon Soleil (LIB) is a French international school in Gavà, Barcelona Province, Catalonia, Spain. As of 2016 it serves petite section through seconde, the second-to-last year of lycée (sixth form college/high school). The school serves ages 3–18.

History

Claire and Sebastian Cabré founded the École Bon Soleil in 1969, initially having 12 students. By 1997 the student population grew to 725. That year the school was renamed to the Collège Bon Soleil, and in 2010 the school received its current name.

Student body

As of 2016 the school has 1,220 students from 17 nationalities. 72% of the students were Spanish nationals, and 24% were French nationals. Other students had citizenships of Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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The public source identifies “Lycée Français de Gavà Bon Soleil” as school. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Lycée, Français and Gavà.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 1969, 1997, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Lycée, Français and Gavà providing the first useful test.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25057960. Authority coordinates are 41.273, 2.000. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016, 1969, 1997 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lycée Français de Gavà Bon Soleil” 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.