Pensionnat des Frères des écoles chrétiennes à Passy

On 18 March 1864, the school (having over 700 pupils then) was visited by Minister of Education Victor Duruy, who complimented the Brothers "in the most flattering terms upon the appearance and tendency of the pensionnat".

[7] Another ministerial visit took place on 12 May of the same year, caused by the resistance to the projet de loi for special instruction[b] which was manifested in the parliamentary commission which had been appointed to examine the subject.

To overcome this opposition M. Duruy invited the members of the commission to accompany him to Passy, in order to demonstrate to them, as he expressed it, the successful realization of his project by the Christian Brothers.

[7]As a law of 7 July 1904 prevented religious congregations from teaching any longer, the Brothers moved their boarding school's residence to Froyennes, Belgium in 1905.

[10][c] An association of fathers took advantage of the ones unsold yet disused to recreate a school, which was granted diocesan tutelage by Archbishop Léon-Adolphe Amette in 1911.