Word: normalien
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...Choosy. Paâques believed he was ideally suited for this role. After all, he was a normalien-a graduate, like French Premier Georges Pompidou and Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, of the prestigious Ecole Normale Superieure, and thus a "certified intellectual." So, first in Algiers in 1944, later in Paris, where he served in a succession of government departments, Paâques began a series of "political conversations" with a changing list of Soviet embassy personnel...
...Famed normaliens include Henri Bergson, Louis Pasteur, Jules Romains and Jean-Paul Sartre. Before World War II, the school also bred Socialist politicians from Jaurès to Blum. Even now, De Gaulle's Premier is Normalien Georges Pompidou, a banker-professor who writes books on French writers from Racine to Malraux. Yet he is not typical: in the Fifth Republic, normaliens have lost political influence...
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