Lycée Sisowath
Lycée Sisowath (; also Sisowath High School) is a secondary school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The school was founded in 1873 as a collège (middle school) and became a lycée (middle and high school) in 1933. It is named after King Sisowath. History Under the initiative of François Fontaine, the first "modern" Franco-Cambodian school was established in the year 1873. It was the French-language School of the Protectorate, in Phnom Penh. The School of the Protectorate was renamed Collège of the Protectorate in 1893 and then Collège Sisowath in 1905. The Collège prepared students for service in the French colonial administration, the judiciary and the indigenous administration. During the French Protectorate, the school was heavily dominated by Vietnamese immigrant children. In 1933, the Collège Sisowath became the Lycée Preah Sisowath. In 1935, Son Ngoc Thanh founded the Association des amis du Lycée Sisowath, Cambodia's first alumni association, which would become an agora of discussion and promotion of the national sentiment. The first Cambodian students graduated from the Lycée Sisowath with baccalauréats in 1939. In the 1940s, the headmaster of the school was Chhean Vam, the husband of Thiounn Choeum of the Thiounn family. Only 144 Cambodians had completed the full