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Born on [[{{Y}}|13 April 1901]], [[Jacques Marie Émile Lacan]] was the first child of [[Charles Marie Alfred Lacan]] and [[Émilie Philippine Marie Baudry]]. [[Alfred Lacan]] was the Paris sales representative of a large provincial firm. The family lived in comfortable conditions in the Boulevard du Beaumarchais before moving to the Montparnasse area where Jacques entered the prestigious Catholic school, the [[Collège Stanislas]].
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An outstanding pupil, he excelled in religious studies and Latin. As a teenager, [[Jacques Lacan]] developed a passion for philosophy, adorning the walls of his bedroom with a plan of the [[structure]] of [[Spinoza]]'s ''[[Ethics]]'', a text which would always remain dear to him and which he would quote at the start of his [[doctoral dissertation]] in [[medicine]].
