Royal College Curepipe

The Royal College of Curepipe is one of the oldest institutions of the Republic of Mauritius, but although the actual building was completed in 1914, the history of the Royal College of Curepipe stretches back to to 1791. In that particular year, the ancestor of the Royal College of Curepipe, the 'College National' also known as the 'College Colonial' was founded in Port Louis. It was reserved for the children of the privileged classes of that area and the college bore the name of 'Ecole Centrale' in 1800, before taking that of 'Lycee Coloniale' from 1803 to 1810 during the final years of the French rule in Mauritius. The 'Lycee Coloniale' was a boarding school and military training was introduced.