9 May 1945 — Facsimile of the front page of Libres, a newspaper founded by the national movement of prisoners of war and deportees. (Public domain).

Year 1941

January
There are now one hundred and fifty-nine students, including twenty girls.

June
First session of the matura/baccalaureate.

June
Germany invades the USSR.

20 September
The school year starts with two hundred and twenty-six students, including forty girls.

October
Second session of the matura/baccalaureate: 37 recipients for the two sessions.

1 November
The Polish Red Cross in France is dissolved and replaced by the Groupement d'assistance aux Polonais en France (Welfare Society for the Poles in France) of which Zygmunt Lubicz-Zalewski becomes president.