Jules Massenet taught composition beginning in 1898.
 He taught composition there from 1878 until 1896, when he resigned after the death of the director, Ambroise Thomas
" Romain Rolland and Francis Poulenc have both considered Massenet an influence on Debussy's Pellas et Mlisande; Debussy was a student at the Conservatoire during Massenet's professorship but did not study under him

