Biography | Laurent Prud'homme — Six School Years Behind This Door on Rue Benjamin Franklin

People date a sports-media career from Canal+ in 1998.

The first long institutional address on the public record is earlier and quieter.

French biographical notices list the Jesuit Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, known as Franklin, from 1986 to 1992.

The collège, lycée and prépa still sit at 12 rue Benjamin Franklin in the 16th arrondissement.

The door in the photograph is that address.

He would have been twelve when the span begins and eighteen when it ends, which matches a full secondary cycle at one school.

Franklin is a selective Catholic school founded in 1894 as the Petit Externat du Trocadéro.

The years themselves are an enrollment fact, not a classroom anecdote.

No source published here claims a prize or a conversion inside these walls.

What the span does is put a Var-born navy child into Paris for the stretch that precedes Assas and emlyon.

Photo: Celette, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons