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École secondaire Antoine-de-Saint-Exupéry

Public high school in Quebec named for the beloved French writer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

École secondaire Antoine-de-Saint-Exupéry is a Francophone public and co-educational secondary school in St. Leonard, Quebec. A part of the Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Île, it was originally in the Roman Catholic Commission scolaire Jérôme-Le Royer before the 1998 reorganization of school districts.

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The public source identifies “École secondaire Antoine-de-Saint-Exupéry” as public high school in Quebec named for the beloved French writer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around École, secondaire and Antoine-de-Saint-Exupéry.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with École, secondaire and Antoine-de-Saint-Exupéry providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 27, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “École secondaire Antoine-de-Saint-Exupéry” 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.