A view of the redeveloped Pensionnat De Jeunes Filles, a listed Grade II A heritage building and India’s only French-medium girls high school run by the Puducherry Government.
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The restoration and redevelopment of the Pensionnat De Jeunes Filles, a listed Grade II A heritage building and India’s only French-medium girls high school run by the Puducherry Government has been completed. The school, which has been functioning from a heritage building, will be finally open for students after the restoration project which began in February 2023.The redevelopment was taken up under an initiative of the Puducherry Smart City Development Limited (PSCDL).Official sources said the work was completed before the 2026 Assembly elections. PSCDL has formally handed over the building to the Department of Education.Located on the Beach Road, the foundation stone for the restoration and redevelopment of the school was laid in February 2023. The work was supposed to be completed in March 2025.
According to INTACH, “The Pensionnat de Jeunes Filles was the Bedier house before the Second French Empire. In 1858, it was rented out and then sold to the colony to house a school for European girls.”
