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École normale supérieure de jeunes filles

Coordinates: 48°49′21″N 2°19′53″E / 48.822439°N 2.331312°E / 48.822439; 2.331312
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The École normale supérieure de jeunes filles (also, École normale supérieure de Sèvres) was a French institute of higher education, in Sèvres, now a commune in the suburbs of Paris. The school educated girls only, especially as teachers for the secondary education system.[1] It was founded on 29 July 1881 on the initiative of Camille Sée, following the Sée-inspired act of the legislature which established lycées for girls. In 1985 it merged with the École normale supérieure of the rue d'Ulm.

History

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On the school's founding, French Minister of National Education Jules Ferry named the philosopher and educator Julie Velten Favre director of the institution.[2] The school was initially housed in the former buildings of the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, from which it was ejected in 1940; it was reinstated in the Boulevard Jourdan, in the 14th arrondissement. It existed until 1985, when it merged with the École normale supérieure, Rue d'Ulm, forming a co-educational school.[3]

Directors (1881–1988)

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Notable students

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Faculty

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Fox, Robert (2012). The Savant and the State: Science and Cultural Politics in Nineteenth-Century France. JHU Press. p. 288. ISBN 9781421405223.
  2. ^ Long, Kathleen P., ed. (2006). Religious Differences in France: Past and Present. Truman State University Press. ISBN 9781931112574.
  3. ^ Chimisso, Cristina (1 January 2008). Writing The History of the Mind: Philosophy and Science in France, 1900 to 1960s. Ashgate. pp. 20 n. 32. ISBN 9780754690252.
  4. ^ Charle, Christophe. "François, Henri , Marie". In INRP (ed.). Les professeurs de la faculté des lettres de Paris – Dictionnaire biographique 1809-1908 (in French). Paris. pp. 131–132..
  • Kosmann-Schwartzbach, Yvette (2015). "Women mathematicians in France in the mid-twentieth century". BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. 30 (3): 227–242. arXiv:1502.07597. doi:10.1080/17498430.2014.976804.

48°49′21″N 2°19′53″E / 48.822439°N 2.331312°E / 48.822439; 2.331312