École normale supérieure lettres et sciences humaines

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The École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines (ENS-LSH) is an elite French grande école located in Lyon, in the district of Gerland, near the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (Sciences).

[edit] Overview

This school is meant to train high school and classes préparatoires teachers, but also university professors and researchers.

Teaching subjects include :

• Humanities
  • Classics (Ancient Greek and Latin)
  • French and foreign literature
  • Musicology
  • Philosophy
  • Theater and Film studies

• Social Sciences
  • Economics
  • Geography
  • History
  • Linguistics
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

• Foreign languages et civilisations

The two schools were located in Saint-Cloud and Fontenay-aux-Roses, near Paris. Firstly male students went to Saint-Cloud and female to Fontenay-aux Roses, but after 1981, the schools became mixed, scientific students went to Saint-Cloud and literary to Fontenay-aux-Roses. Then the schools both moved to Lyon in the frame of French decentralisation, Saint-Cloud in 1987 and Fontenay-aux-Roses in 2000.

[edit] Notable alumni

• Alain Finkielkraut (1969)
• André Glucksmann (1957)
• Mazarine Pingeot (1994)

[edit] External link

• (French) Official website

The network of French écoles normales supérieures
ENS (rue d’Ulm) • ENS Cachan • ENS Lyon • ENS Lettres et sciences humaines