Editing Barcelonnette (section)

==Education==
An ''[[Normal school|école normale]]'' (an institute for training primary school teachers) was founded in Barcelonnette in 1833, and remained there until 1888 when it was transferred to Digne.<ref name="Ecoles République">Th. L., "École primaire", ''in'' Renaud Alberny, Denis-Armand Canal, Thomas Laurenceau, Dominique Voisin, ''Les Écoles de la République'', Niort : Eclectis, 1993. {{ISBN|2-908975-15-7}}, p. 17</ref> The ''{{ill|lycée André-Honnorat de Barcelonnette|fr|Lycée André-Honnorat de Barcelonnette}}'', originally the ''collège Saint-Maurice'' and renamed after the politician [[André Honnorat]] in 1919, is located in the town; [[Pierre-Gilles de Gennes]] and [[Carole Merle]] both studied there.<ref name="Ecoles République19">Renaud Alberny ''et al.'', "École primaire", p. 19</ref><ref name="lyceegen">Academic inspection of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, ''[http://ia04.ac-aix-marseille.fr/wacam/jcms/c_67638/lycees-publics Liste des lycées publics] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221181940/http://ia04.ac-aix-marseille.fr/wacam/jcms/c_67638/lycees-publics |date=2014-02-21 }}'', published 6 April 2010, Accessed 31 October 2010</ref> Currently, three schools exist in Barcelonnette: a public nursery school, a public elementary school, and a private school (under a contract by which the teachers are paid by the national education system).<ref name="ecole">Academic inspection of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, ''[http://ia04.ac-aix-marseille.fr/wacam/jcms/c_72040/liste-des-ecoles-de-la-circonscription-de-sisteron-sud Liste des écoles de la circonscription de Sisteron-Sud] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100715040708/http://www.ia04.ac-aix-marseille.fr/wacam/jcms/c_72040/liste-des-ecoles-de-la-circonscription-de-sisteron-sud |date=2010-07-15 }}'', published 27 April 2010, accessed 31 October 2010</ref>

In 2010 the ''lycée André-Honnorat'' opened a boarding school aimed at gifted students of poorer social backgrounds, in order to give them better conditions in which to study.<ref name="internat">Académie d'Aix-Marseille, ''[http://www.ac-aix-marseille.fr/wacam/jcms/c_94319/installation-des-46-premiers-internes-dans-le-premier-internat-dexcellence-de-lacademie-a-barcelonnette Installation des 46 premiers internes dans le premier internat d'excellence de l'Académie à Barcelonnette] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100927214046/http://www.ac-aix-marseille.fr/wacam/jcms/c_94319/installation-des-46-premiers-internes-dans-le-premier-internat-dexcellence-de-lacademie-a-barcelonnette |date=2010-09-27 }}'', published 3 September 2010, accessed 21 September 2010</ref><ref name="college">Academic inspection of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, ''[http://ia04.ac-aix-marseille.fr/wacam/jcms/c_67641/colleges-publics Liste des collèges publics] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720203332/http://ia04.ac-aix-marseille.fr/wacam/jcms/c_67641/colleges-publics |date=2011-07-20 }}'', published 6 April 2010, accessed 31 October 2010</ref> It is located in the ''Quartier Craplet'', formerly the garrison of the 11th Battalion of ''[[Chasseurs Alpins]]'' and then the [[French Army]]'s ''Centre d'instruction et d'entraînement au combat en montagne'' (CIECM).