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The 'École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines', or 'ENS-LSH', is an elite French ''grande école'' located in Lyon, in the district of Gerland, near the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (Sciences). It was formerly located in Fontenay and Saint-Cloud, near Paris, and kown as "Fontenay-Saint-Cloud".

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Overview

Notable alumni

External link

Overview

This school trains not only high school and ''classes préparatoires'' teachers, but also university professors and researchers.
Teaching subjects include :

★ Humanities

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★ Classics (Ancient Greek and Latin)

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★ French and foreign literature

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★ Musicology

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★ Philosophy

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★ Theater and Film studies

★ Social Sciences

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★ Economics

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★ Geography

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★ History

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★ Linguistics

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★ Political Science

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★ 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.

Notable alumni

★ Alain Finkielkraut (1969)

★ André Glucksmann (1957)

★ Mazarine Pingeot (1994)

External link

★ Official website