Corps des Mines
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The Corps des Mines is a subgroup of the French civil service, one of so-called grands corps de l'État which have long enjoyed elite status among French public employees. For about two centuries it ha
Parkside façade of the Hôtel de Vendôme, now home of Mines Paris – PSL, where members of the Corps des Mines have received their initial training since 1817
École polytechnique
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École polytechnique is a grande école located in Palaiseau, France. It specializes in science and engineering and is a founding member of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris.
Corps des Mines
…National Convention in 1794 created the Agence des Mines and re-established the École des Mines in Paris, with a mandate to recruit its engineers from École Polytechnique. That year, scholar Charles Coquebert de Montbret, who had just been appointed by the Agence des Mines as editor of its newly established journal…
The chemistry auditorium in the old building in the Quartier Latin, photographed by Jules David in 1904
Statue in the courtyard commemorating the cadets of the school rushing to the defence of Paris in 1814. A replica was installed in West Point.
Pediment of historical buildings, rue Descartes in Paris
Historical entrance of the École polytechnique Paris campus at the junction of the rue de la Montagne Saint-Genevieve and rue Descartes