École Polytechnique’s modern outlook in sync with Macron

New president keen to support Paris institution’s ‘agility’, according to its leader

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May 16, 2017

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Entrepreneurial army: many ‘polytechniciens’, who graduate in a military-style uniform, now come from outside France

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