1980 - 2015

Extract from Actis Virtus - The Credo of a Great Swiss Boarding School's Director by Philippe Gudin 

In 1880, Paul Carnal, a young school teacher from the Jura, refused to accept the Bernese Kulturkampf which forced French-speaking Swiss to attend school in German. He left the Jura and came to Rolle, a small town on Lake Geneva, where he decided to make his home. There, he bought a run-down medieval chateau and its extensive but overgrown estate, and started a private school for boys.

 

Thus, Le Rosey was born of a rebellion against cultural submission; an excellent beginning! In all likelihood, however, Carnal never dreamed that Le Rosey's destiny would be so exceptional, or that one hundred and twenty-five years later, we would still be following his lead in refusing to accept ready-made routines or ideas, and in promoting understanding between all races, nations and languages.