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...military academy. Now, although its students still attend formals in uniform, it is the number one school in France, and grooms leaders for careers in science, business, and politics. Former President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing is a Polytechnicien, as were auto baron André Citro??«n and scientists Siméon Poisson, Augustin Fresnel, Henri Becquerel, and Henri Pointcaré. Each year, the top five hundred science and economics students in France join the community in Palaiseau, and after graduation, they continue on to the upper echelons of institutions across Europe...

Author: By Karin M. Jentoft | Title: Polytechnique: Broadening Borders | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...France Every Country for Itself? Detroit's automakers aren't the only ones getting a helping hand. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has proposed loans of $3.9 billion each to Peugeot Citro??n and Renault in exchange for promises that the companies won't enact layoffs in France. The proposal drew charges of protectionism from other E.U. members, who say the plan could force the carmakers to cut workers in other countries. Other recent E.U. auto-assistance deals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...eyes, he has replicated those colors exactly on fair-trade cotton T shirts with 5% cashmere fibers. Causse, a former advertising executive, has replicated other iconic colors, such as the original rust shade of the Eiffel Tower, the black of Beluga caviar at Caviar Kaspia, the green of a Citro??n 2CV and the bright white of the sand on Hyams Beach at Jervis Bay, Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Color Wheel | 11/19/2007 | See Source »

Then De Gaulle guided his guest to a waiting Citro??n for the ten-mile motorcade to the Kennedys' residence in Paris, the Palais des Affaires Etrangeres on the Quai d'Orsay. In deference to onetime (1950) Sorbonne Student Jackie, who followed in a car with Madame de Gaulle, the route included the famed Boul' Mich'?cobblestoned main drag of the university district?before crossing the Seine into downtown Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Measuring Mission | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

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