École des Beaux-Arts

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Also Known As	Académie Royale • Académie Royale d’Architecture • École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts • French Academy • National School of Fine Arts
Date	1671 - present
Notable Alumni	Edgar Degas • Pierre-Auguste Renoir • Georges Seurat • Manolo Blahnik • Ellsworth Kelly • Jean Nouvel • Dominique Perrault • David Davidovich Burlyuk • Christian de Portzamparc • Augustus Saint-Gaudens • Louise Bourgeois • Richard Morris Hunt • Robert Henri • Charles Follen McKim • Roger de La Fresnaye • Raoul Dufy • Hubert de Givenchy • Louis Majorelle • Bernard Maybeck • Raymond M. Hood
Related People	Hippolyte Taine • Jean-Léon Gérôme

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