Nice, France: Lycee Massena

This looks like a tourist attraction or a museum or something. It's not. It's a high school.

Pretty nice, as these things go.

Lycee Massena used to be a convent starting in 1623. But it became a school after the French Revolution, and has gone through a variety of structural changes over the years.

One story - just after D-Day, five high school students dropped out to fight for France. They were captured by the Gestapo and shot on June 11, 1944. They mark the event once every year in the school playground.

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