The Third Republic was the foundation of the teaching of civic education. Primary education became a priority. We even had to close the Colonial College in 1899. In fact, he opened a few months later, in 1900, assigned exclusively and permanently to an administration and lay teachers. The republican authorities wanted to make an institution accessible to all on merit alone, including girls, which étaitn still outstanding. The French specificity did not stop to grant, from the nineteenth century, a PLCE important to study English, but also the Tamil language and culture .
Time passed, the fading colonial world to the freedom of peoples and nations, the College became the College Colonial French. After the Second World War, Pondicherry India joined in 1954. Nehru honored her visit our school and there he spoke words of hope and fraternitésur "Pondicherry window on France." That these words have sometimes been overused since then, nothing to note their original strength .

They assign to the French College, High School French since 1972, a special place because they associate the education of children communoté French remained in Pondicherry and the reception of young Indians attracted to French culture. maintaining language and French culture is one of the specific assets and the Union Territory of Pondicherry in the Indian union. Instead the school was guaranteed by Article 21 of the Treaty of Cession, signed by the Governments of the French Republic and the Indian Union.

The founder,

Eugene Panon Desbassays Count RICHEMONT

Born in Paris March 29, 1800, he was the son of Philip PANON DESBAYSSINS and nephew of VILLELE. He arrived in Pondicherry March 12, 1826, with the title of Commissioner of the Navy, Director General of the French Establishments of India, Governor of Pondicherry from June 18, 1826 to August 2, 1828. In two years, since leaving the bar in 1828, he produced a considerable work. Outstanding administrator, having full knowledge of India, it prmulgua between July 1826 and August 1828 one hundred and eight orders. He created the Royal College October 28, 1826, he endowed Pondicherry and Karaikal of free schools for the Indians. Desiring to make culture accessible to all, created in May 827 Public Library of Pondicherry. He was interested in sanitation and beautification of the town by including courses construct Chabrol. Pondicherry he endowed a "bazaar" central. He tried to introduce into the city large colonial cultures and his major work as the order of 7 July 1827 which was for several decades, constitute the "Code of Agriculture" Pondicherry. .

Returning to France in 1828, he resumed after the July Revolution, his studies of physics and chemistry and presented several of his works at the Academy of Sciences.

In 1842, he helped to establish a leper colony Pondicherry by a donation to the Benevolence Committee. He died in Paris June 26, 1859.