Napoleon introduces many reforms in France to boost its development. He improved the education system by creating lucées. The purpose of lycées was to

Lycée, in France, an upper-level secondary school preparing pupils for the baccalauréat (the degree required for university admission). The first lycée was established in 1801, under the educational reforms of Napoleon Bonaparte.

The Lycées was created in 1801, as part of Bonaparte Napoleon's reforms in the education system, and it was an upper-level secondary French school for boys aged from 10 to 16 years, who came from middle and high classes. The main purpose of these institutions was to prepare males to fill positions for the bureaucracy and military service of Napoleon's government.