Back to the LFV, 50 years after the bac - class of 1976!

There are visits that feel like time travel. This was one of them.

On this Friday, May 8th, we had the joy of welcoming 33 alumni from the Class of 1976, returning together—50 years after their baccalaureate—to revisit the place where many of them spent… 12 years of their lives.

And what journeys they’ve had since! Among them: teachers, university professors, civil servants, lawyers, doctors, journalists, business leaders, psychologists, writers… An impressive diversity of careers, but one unbroken common thread: a deep attachment to LFV.

The visit was punctuated by countless:
“Ohhhh!”
“Wait, that didn’t exist back then!”
“Do you remember?”

They discovered or rediscovered:
- the Molière Studio… which used to be a cinema,
- Building F… which didn’t exist in their day,
- the infirmary… once located in Building C,
- asked where the student lounge was… where you could smoke (!), which has long since disappeared,
- searched for the octagonal tables in the school cafeteria, now replaced by rectangular ones,
- wondered if students were still served at their tables… which is no longer the case, as the cafeteria now operates as a self-service,
- and marveled at how huge the library (CDI) has become.

A particularly delightful moment: the encounter with 6ème students in the library. The 6ème, born in… 2014, widened their eyes in disbelief when they learned that the people in front of them had graduated in… 1976. “But… that was in another century!”
Well, yes. Literally.

And then, at 3:30 PM, in front of the school, there was a beautiful moment.
As we watched this group of alumni return, we explained to our high school students on break that they were the Class of 1976. Spontaneously, the students broke into warm applause. As if it were the most natural thing in the world.
As if it were a silent tribute to that special bond that unites all those who grew up here.

Because, in the end, what this visit reminds us is that you never truly leave your school.
You carry its hallways, faces, memories, friendships… and a piece of your adolescence with you.

So the date is set:
The current terminale class can return in 2076 to see what has become of “their” LFV…
By then, the school will be celebrating its 130th anniversary.