Collège Saint-Michel (German: Kollegium St. Michael) is a Gymnasium school located in Fribourg, Switzerland. It was established in 1582 by the Jesuit order as a boys' school.^[1]

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Collège Saint-Michel
Location
Fribourg , FR Switzerland
Coordinates	46.80725°N 7.1577°E / 46.80725; 7.1577
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Type	public and secular secondary school 2 (High school)
Motto	Laudamus veteres sed nostris utimur annis (“We praise the elders, but we are of our time”)
Established	1582
Administrator	Axel Loup
Rector	Martin Steinmann
Website	csmfr.ch

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It is a public and secular secondary school preparing for university studies. It is located in the heart of the city of Friborg on Belzé hill. It is a mixed and bilingual high school (French, German) which has around 1,300 students. Alongside the gymnasium classes, the school also houses the Passerelle, an adult training course offered to holders of a professional or specialized maturity. The reputation of Collège St-Michel, founded in 1582, extends well beyond the canton of Friborg and many personalities were trained there.

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• Erich von Däniken, ancient astronaut theorist
• Patrick Aebischer (1954– ), president of the EPFL
• Abbé Joseph Bovet (1879–1951), composer
• Dominique de Buman (1956– ), national councilor
• Jacques Chessex (1934–2009), writer
• Michel Dénériaz (1928–1999), radio host and game show
• Joseph Deiss (1946– ), former federal councilor
• Antoine Dousse (1924–2006), bookseller, teacher and writer
• Claude Frochaux (1935), writer, publisher
• Emile Gardaz (1931–2007), poet and writer
• Félix Glutz, vaudois politician
• François Gross (1931–2015), journalist
• Pierre Hemmer (1950–2013), one of the Internet pioneers in Switzerland
• Armin Jordan (1932–2006) orchestra conductor
• Cardinal Charles Journet (1891–1974)
• Anthony Kohlmann (1771–1836), Jesuit educator
• Mgr Pierre Mamie (1920–2008), bishop
• Jules Marmier (1874–1975), Swiss composer, cellist, organist and choirmaster
• Georges Python, conseiller d'État, principal founder in 1891 of the University of Fribourg
• Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon (1817–1854), adventurer, conqueror of the desert of Sonora (Mexico)
• Count Gonzague de Reynold (1880–1970), historian and writer
• Léon Savary (1895–1968), writer and journalist
• Peter Scholl-Latour (1924–2014), journalist
• Vladimir Serbinenko, Switzerland's first gold medallist at the International Mathematical Olympiad
• Father Joseph-Marie Timon-David (1835–1842), founder of Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
• Ernst Wilczek (1862–1948), botanist

• List of Jesuit schools