Cours Simon

It was founded in 1925 and since 1983 has been based at 14, rue la Vacquerie, in Paris's 11th arrondissement.

[1] The school offers a three-year course to students, who attend fifteen hours a week, preparing them for entrance to the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique.

[7] Students are required to study classical writers such as Aristophanes, Jean Racine, Molière and Shakespeare alongside contemporary international playwrights such as Sarah Kane, Edward Bond, Harold Pinter, Dario Fo, Samuel Beckett, Luigi Pirandello, Bertolt Brecht and Anton Chekov.

Informal weekly classes are also offered to children and adults.

The school has a number of former students who went on to have successful careers in stage and screen, including:

The school at 14 Rue La Vacquerie, Paris