Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris). Prices and admission requirements

Higher normal(pedagogical) school(fr. École normale supérieure other names: "ENS Ulm", "ENS de Paris", "Normale Sup" or simply "Ulm") is a French public institution in the field of higher education in France, subordinate to the French Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. The current director is Marc Mezard (French). Marc Mézard).

The École Normale Supérieure is one of the most prestigious higher educational institutions in France, for admission to which you must study for several years in special schools after graduating from the Lyceum. preparatory classes(“les classes préparatoires”), in order to then undergo a strict competitive selection.

The main campus is located at rue d'ulme(Ulm Street, rue d "Ulm), 45 in the V arrondissement of Paris (hence the name: Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm)).

As of 2014, it is recognized as the best higher education institution in France and ranks 35th in the world academic list.

History, status and tasks

The École Normale Supérieure in Paris is part of the École Normale Supérieure, together with the École Normale Supérieure of Cachan and the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon. However, only the Parisian High School, due to its long history and prestige, is simply called “Ecole Normale Supérieure” in legislative or regulatory texts without further clarification.

The current VNS was created as a result of the merger in 1985 of the Paris Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Sèvres Women's High Normal School. (Before the merger, women had the right to hold competition in the Paris High School. Two wonderful examples are Simone Weil, who entered the Paris High School from the women's School in 1928, and academician Jacqueline de Romilly).

The Paris Normal School was founded on the 9th Brumaire of the third year of the Republic (October 30) by the National Convention, which expressed the desire that a “normal School” be established in Paris, where citizens already educated in the useful sciences would be called from all parts of the Republic, so that, under the guidance of the most scientists in all fields and professors to learn the art of teaching.”

Now, in accordance with the decree of August 26, 1987, “The Higher Normal School, with a high level of cultural and scientific education, prepares students for work in the field of fundamental or applied scientific research, for teaching at universities and in preparatory courses for higher education, as well as for secondary education.” education and, more generally, to service in the state administration and administrative-territorial entities, their public institutions and enterprises.”

Science and education

In the VNS of Paris (and since 2010 also in Lyon) they study not only natural sciences, but also equally humanities and social sciences.

• Natural sciences
  • Department of Biology
  • Department of Chemistry
  • Department of Computer Science
  • Department of Mathematics and Its Applications
  • Department of Physics
  • Department of “Earth-atmosphere-ocean” (geology, etc.)

• Humanities and social sciences
  • Department of Literature and Languages ​​(Département Lila, that is, Li la)
  • Department of Philosophy
  • Department of Ancient Sciences
  • Department of Social Sciences
  • Department of Geography
  • Department of History
  • Department of Cognitive Studies
  • Group "History and Philosophy of Science" (Collectif Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences, CHPS)
  • Platform "Environment" (Plateforme environnement)
  • Department of History and Theory of Arts (Département d’Histoire et de Théorie des Arts, DHTA)
  • Department of Foreign Languages ​​(Espace des Cultures et Langues d’Ailleurs, ECLA)

A special jargon (jargon normalien) is common at the École Normale Supérieure.

School principals

• Jerome Carcopino (1940-41, 1942-44)

Notable alumni

• Astronomers: Andoyer, Chalonge and Kovalevsky
• Mathematicians: Darboux, Borel, Picard, Elie and Henri Cartan, Hadamard, Weyl, Baer, ​​Fréchet, Dieudonné and Chevalley
• Mineralogists: François Sulpice Beudan
• Historians: Charles Seignobos, Lucien Febvre, Marc Bloch, Jacques Le Goff, Jacques Revel
• Chemist and biologist: Louis Pasteur
• Physicists, Nobel laureates Lippmann and de Gennes
• Sociologists and philosophers: Michel Foucault, Georges Dumézil, Émile Durkheim, René Worms, Jean-Paul Sartre, Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Derrida
• Writers: Muriel Barbery, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Romain Rolland
• Linguists: Claude Agége

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Literature

• Collectif Le livre du centenaire, Hachette, 1895
• Collectif Les Normaliens peints par eux-mêmes, Chamerot et Renouard, 1895
• Paul Dimoff, La Rue d'Ulm à la Belle époque (1899-1903), imp. G. Thomas, 1970
• François Dufay et Pierre-Bertrand Dufort, Les normaliens. De Charles Péguy à Bernard-Henri Lévy, un siècle d’histoire, J.C. Lattès, 1993 (ASIN 2709613077) ;
• Edouard Herriot, Normale, Société nouvelle d'édition, 1932
• Michèle Ferrand, Françoise Imbert et Catherine Marry, L'Excellence scolaire: une affaire de famille. Le cas des normaliennes et normaliens scientifiques, L'Harmattan, coll. "Bibliothèque de l'éducation", 1999 (ISBN 2-7384-8221-X);
• Pascale Hummel, Humanites normaliennes. L'enseignement classique et l"érudition philologique dans l"École normale supérieure au s-XIXe, Belles Lettres, coll. "Études anciennes", n° 298, 1995 (ISBN 2-251-32645-6);
• Pascale Hummel, Regards sur les études classiques au XIXe siècle. Catalog du fonds Morante, Paris, Presses de l’École normale supérieure, 1990.
• Pascale Hummel, Pour une histoire de l’École normale supérieure: sources d’archives (1794-1993), en collaboration avec A. Lejeune et D. Peyceré, Paris, Archives nationales - Presses de l’École normale supérieure, 1995.
• Nicole Masson L"École normale supérieure: les chemins de la liberté, Gallimard, coll. "Découvertes", 1994 (ASIN 2070532844);
• Alain Peyrefitte, Rue d'Ulm. Chroniques de la vie normalienne, Fayard, 1994 (ed.);
• Robert Flaceliere, Normale en peril, Presses universitaires de France, 1971
• Romain Rolland, Le cloître de la rue d'Ulm, Albin Michel, 1952;
• Jean-François Sirinelli, École normale supérieure: le livre du bicentenaire,PUF, 1994.

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– Is...what is this? – the little girl asked with a breath. – Can I play with him?.. He won’t be offended?
Mom apparently mentally reprimanded her sternly, because the girl suddenly became very upset. Tears welled up in her warm brown eyes and it was clear that just a little more and they would flow like a river.
- Just don't cry! – Stella quickly asked. - Do you want me to make you the same?
The girl’s face instantly lit up. She grabbed her mother’s hand and squealed happily:
– Do you hear, mommy, I didn’t do anything wrong and they’re not angry with me at all! Can I have one like that too?.. I’ll really be very good! I really, really promise you!
Mom looked at her with sad eyes, trying to decide how best to answer. And the girl suddenly asked:
– Have you seen my dad, good glowing girls? He and my brother disappeared somewhere...
Stella looked at me questioningly. And I already knew in advance what she would offer now...
- Do you want us to look for them? – as I thought, she asked.
– We have already looked, we have been here for a long time. But there are none. “The woman answered very calmly.
“We’ll look differently,” Stella smiled. “Just think about them so we can see them, and we will find them.”
The girl closed her eyes funny, apparently trying very hard to mentally create a picture of her dad. A few seconds passed...
“Mommy, how can it be that I don’t remember him?” the little girl was surprised.
I heard this for the first time and from the surprise in Stella’s big eyes I realized that this was also something completely new for her...
- How come you don’t remember? – the mother did not understand.
- Well, I look and look and don’t remember... How can it be, I love him very much? Maybe he really is no more?..
- Excuse me, but can you see him? – I asked my mother carefully.
The woman nodded confidently, but suddenly something in her face changed and it was clear that she was very confused.
- No... I can’t remember him... Is this really possible? – she said almost in fear.
- And your son? Can you remember? Or brother? Can you remember your brother? – Stella asked addressing both of them at once.
Mother and daughter shook their heads.
Usually so cheerful, Stella’s face looked very worried, she probably couldn’t understand what was going on here. I literally felt the intense work of her living and such an unusual brain.
- I came up with it! I came up with an idea! – Stella suddenly squealed happily. – We will “put on” your images and go for a “walk”. If they are somewhere, they will see us. Really?
I liked the idea, and all that remained was to mentally “change clothes” and go on a search.
- Oh, please, can I stay with him until you return? – the little girl stubbornly did not forget her desire. – What’s his name?
“Not yet,” Stella smiled at her. - and you?
- Leah. - The little girl answered. – Why do you still glow? We saw these once, but everyone said that they were angels... And who are you then?
“We are girls like you, only we live “upstairs.”
– Where is the top? – little Leah did not let up.
“Unfortunately, you can’t go there,” Stella, who was in difficulty, tried to somehow explain. - Do you want me to show you?
The little girl jumped for joy. Stella took her hand and opened her stunning fantasy world, where everything seemed so bright and happy that I didn’t want to believe it.
Leah’s eyes looked like two huge round saucers:
– Oh, what a beauty!....Is this heaven? Oh ma-mom!.. – the girl squealed enthusiastically, but very quietly, as if afraid of frightening off this incredible vision. -Who lives there? Oh, look, what a cloud!.. And golden rain! Does this really happen?..
-Have you ever seen a red dragon? – Leah shook her head negatively. - Well, you see, but it happens to me, because this is my world.
- And then what are you - God??? “But God can’t be a girl, can he?” And then, who are you?..
Questions poured out of her like an avalanche and Stella, not having time to answer them, laughed.
Not busy with “questions and answers”, I began to quietly look around and was completely amazed by what was opening up to me. extraordinary world... It was truly a real “transparent” world. Everything around sparkled and shimmered with some kind of blue, ghostly light, from which (as it should have been) for some reason it did not become cold, but on the contrary - it warmed me with some unusually deep, soul-piercing warmth. From time to time, transparent human figures floated around me, now condensing, now becoming transparent, like a luminous fog... This world was very beautiful, but somehow impermanent. It seemed that he was changing all the time, not knowing exactly how he would remain forever...
- Well, are you ready to take a walk? – Stella’s cheerful voice pulled me out of my dreams.
-Where should we go? – Having woken up, I asked.
- Let's go look for the missing! – the little girl smiled cheerfully.
- Dear girls, will you still allow me to watch over your little dragon while you walk? – not wanting to forget him for anything, little Leah asked, lowering her round eyes.
- Okay, take care. – Stella graciously allowed. “Just don’t give it to anyone, otherwise he’s still a baby and might get scared.”
- Oh, wow, how can you!.. I will love him very much until you return...
The girl was ready to go out of her way to flattery, just to get her incredible “miracle dragon,” and this “miracle” puffed and puffed, apparently trying his best to please, as if she felt that it was about him...
– When will you come again? Will you come very soon, dear girls? – Secretly dreaming that we will not come very soon, the little girl asked.
Stella and I were separated from them by a shimmering transparent wall...
-Where do we start? – the seriously concerned girl asked seriously. – I’ve never seen anything like this, but I haven’t been here that long... Now we have to do something, right?.. We promised!
– Well, let’s try to “put on” their images, as you suggested? – without thinking for a long time, I said.
Stella quietly “conjured” something, and a second later she looked like plump Leah, and I, naturally, got Mom, which made me laugh a lot... And we put on, as I understood, just energy images, with the help whom we hoped to find the missing people we needed.
- Here it is positive side using other people's images. And there is also a negative one - when someone uses it for bad purposes, like the entity that put on my grandmother’s “key” so that it could beat me. Grandma explained all this to me...
It was funny to hear how this tiny girl expressed such serious truths in a professorial voice... But she really took everything very seriously, despite her sunny, happy character.
- Well, let’s go, “girl Leah”? – I asked with great impatience.
I really wanted to see these other “floors” while I still had the strength to do so. I had already noticed what a big difference there was between this one we were on now and the “upper”, Stella’s “floor”. Therefore, it was very interesting to quickly “plunge” into another unfamiliar world and learn about it, if possible, as much as possible, because I was not at all sure whether I would ever return here again.