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    École polytechnique (lit. 'Polytechnic School'; also known as Polytechnique or l'X [liks]) is a grande école located in Palaiseau, France. It specializes...
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    50472°N 73.61278°W / 45.50472; -73.61278 The École Polytechnique massacre (French: tuerie de l'École polytechnique), also known as the Montreal massacre, was...
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    The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is a public research university in Lausanne, Switzerland. Founded in 1969 with the mission to "train...
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  • Polytechnique Montréal (French pronunciation: [pɔlitɛknik mɔ̃ʁeal]; previously École polytechnique de Montréal; French pronunciation: [ekɔl pɔlitɛknik...
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    later to form the teaching corps of École Polytechnique during the Napoleonic era). In 1802, Napoleon created the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr,...
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  • Sebastien Huberdeau, and Karine Vanasse, the film is based on the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre (also known as the "Montreal Massacre") and re-enacts the...
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    Institut polytechnique de Paris) is a public technological university located in Palaiseau, France. It consists of six engineering grandes écoles: École polytechnique...
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  • The École Polytechnique is a French grande école founded in 1794 to train students in sciences and technology. École Polytechnique may also refer to the...
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  • is a list of notable people affiliated with the École Polytechnique. Alumni of the École Polytechnique are traditionally referred to as "X", or "Xnnnn"...
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    The École Polytechnique d'Ingénieurs de l'Université de Savoie is a French engineering College created in 2006. It has been created from the merger of...
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  • Nathalie Provost (category École Polytechnique massacre)
    1966) is a Canadian gun control advocate who was shot in the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre. She became a spokesperson for the PolySeSouvient gun-control...
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    Jean-Philippe Bouchaud maintains a position as Professor of Physics at École Polytechnique and is a member of the French Academy of Sciences. The CFM-Imperial...
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    including Sorbonne Université, Sciences Po, the École Normale Supérieure, the École Polytechnique, the Technical University of Munich, Yale University...
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  • Marc Lépine (category École Polytechnique massacre)
    men at the École Polytechnique de Montréal, an engineering school affiliated with the Université de Montréal, in the École Polytechnique massacre. Lépine...
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    Revolutionary France, became the first professor of analysis at the École Polytechnique upon its opening in 1794, was a founding member of the Bureau des...
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    (Télécom Paris - ENST) École Polytechnique (École Polytechnique - EP or l'X) École Supérieure d’Electricité (Supélec - ESE) École Supérieure de Physique...
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    Augustin-Louis Cauchy (category École Polytechnique alumni)
    career, and prepared himself for the entrance examination to the École Polytechnique. In 1805, he placed second of 293 applicants on this exam and was...
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    member of IP Paris (Institut Polytechnique de Paris). ENSAE Paris is known as the specialization school of École polytechnique for economics, finance, applied...
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    Bernard Arnault (category École Polytechnique alumni)
    raised in a devoutly Catholic household. He pursued engineering at École polytechnique, graduating in 1971. He began his career in his father's company...
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    education in the 1820s. It was modelled on the first grande école, the École Polytechnique, founded by Lazare Carnot and Gaspard Monge, but was initially...
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    Laurent Schwartz (category École Normale Supérieure alumni)
    became a teacher at the École polytechnique after having at first refused this position. From 1961 to 1963 the École polytechnique suspended his right to...
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    Siméon Denis Poisson (category École Polytechnique alumni)
    Poisson, an officer in the French army. In 1798, he entered the École Polytechnique in Paris as first in his year, and immediately began to attract the...
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    mother even secretly supported her. In 1794, when Germain was 18, the École Polytechnique opened. As a woman, Germain was barred from attending, but the new...
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    (Écoles Normales Supérieures, École Polytechnique, Écoles des Mines, École nationale des ponts et chaussées, Télécom Paris, Écoles Centrales, Arts et Métiers...
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  • the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, Faculté polytechnique de Mons in Belgium, as well as other member schools of the Ecole Centrales...
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    Henri Becquerel (category École Polytechnique alumni)
    school, a prep school in Paris. He studied engineering at the École Polytechnique and the École des Ponts et Chaussées. In Becquerel's early career, he became...
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    EPF School of Engineering (category Grandes écoles)
    Grandes Écoles (UGEI). The EPF was created in 1994 from the former École polytechnique féminine (which was never linked to the École polytechnique) founded...
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    sexual gratification, and "the enemy" who must be punished. The 1989 École Polytechnique massacre is recognized as the first documented mass killing explicitly...
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    Jean-Victor Poncelet (category École Polytechnique alumni)
    mathematician who served most notably as the Commanding General of the École Polytechnique. He is considered a reviver of projective geometry, and his work...
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    Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (category École Polytechnique alumni)
    was a French military engineer and physicist. A graduate of the École polytechnique, Carnot served as an officer in the Engineering Arm (le génie) of...
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