Curepipe was founded in 1867 when part of the population abandoned Port Louis, the capital, to escape malaria and settled in the highlands.

In 1870, Brother Vinoch, director of St. Joseph's College in Port Louis, which was part of the Madagascar province of the congregation, planned to build a rest house and sanatorium for sick boarders from the coast[1] in Curepipe.

The college closed temporarily in 1920-1921 due to a controversy regarding the teaching of Latin, a core subject of the institution, to the sons of families, who were mostly Franco-Mauritian descendants.

In 1927, the administrative commission of Curepipe,[d] chaired by Mr. Émile Pitot, deemed the buildings outdated and damaged by the last tropical cyclone.

In November 1939, the authorities partially requisitioned the college due to World War II measures, using it as a military hospital under the Red Cross administration.

Classes continued until 1942, sharing facilities with Royal College Curepipe (which was requisitioned), before the Brothers had to move to a rented house on Le Clézio Street.

Despite his deep attachment to his new country, he was arrested in 1940 but released a few hours later on the condition that he resign and remain confined to the college.

He was the only German teacher allowed to teach children of an allied nation at the time, owing to his great prestige on the island.

The first lay principal, Mr. Daniel Kœnig, a former student of the 1951 class, was appointed in 1985, followed by Mr. Serge Ng Tat Chung[i] in 1992.