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History, statute and mission

ENS-Ulm belongs to the National universities, like ENS Cachan and ENS Lyon. Nevertheless, the ENS Ulm, because of its seniority, is the only one with being qualified, in the legislative texts or lawful, of “National university”, without additional mention.

It results from fusion, in 1985, between the National university of the street of Ulm, and the National university of young girls of Sevres. It should be noted that before 1940, the women had the right to pass the contest of Ulm. Two famous examples are Simone Weil, entered in Ulm in 1928, and the academician Jacqueline de Romilly, in 1933.

The National university of the street of Ulm was founded the 9 brumaire year III (November 30th 1794) by the Convention, which wanted that was established in Paris “a Teacher training school, where would be called, of all the parts of the Republic, of the citizens already educated in useful sciences, to learn, under the most skilful professors in all the kinds, art to teach. ”

At present, under the terms of the decree of the August 26th 1987, “the National university prepares, by a cultural and scientific formation high level, pupils being intended for the Scientific research fundamental or applied, for the university education and in the preparatory classes like with the secondary education and, more generally, the service of the administrations of the State and the territorial collectivities, their public corporations and companies. ”

Seek and teaching

ENS-Ulm with the characteristic among the universities to accommodate in similar proportions at the same time letters and sciences. Because of that, it is divided overall between “ lettres ” (in the broad sense) and “ sciences ”, each division being equipped with an assistant editor and a director of studies.

Division of sciences:

Department of Biology
Department of Data-processing Chemistry
Mathematical Department of
Department of and applications
Physical Department of
Department Ground-atmosphere-ocean (Geology, etc)

Division of the letters:

Collective History and Philosophy of sciences (CHPS)
Department of cognitive studies
Department of History
Department Literature and languages
Department of Philosophy
Department of sciences of the Antiquity
Department of Social sciences
Department of Geography
Platform environment
Department of History and theory of arts (or “Footbridge of Arts”)
Space of the cultures and languages besides (ECLA)

ENS-Ulm is a founder establishment of the association of universities Paris Universitas.

Studies

Entry

The ENS Ulm accommodates street of Ulm, in the 5 {{E}} district of Paris, of the scientific pupils as well as literary. Various ways are open. The principal one is that of the “first contests”, of level vat + 2. Those which prepare them result mainly from preparatory classes. There exist two literary contests and four scientific contests:

A/L : letters (an obligatory old language)
B/L: letters and social sciences
MPI (ex C/S): maths
PC (ex D/S): physics, chemistry
Information: data processing
BCPST (ex i/o): biology, geology, chemistry

Literary contests and scientific contests offer 100 stations each one each year. In the arts persons, A/L offers 75 stations, and B/L 25.

There exists also a “second contest” (F/S) intended to the academics biologists or for the medical students, and a “international selection” reserved to the foreign students.

Schooling

The schooling is four years there. The pupils are free to choose their once entered course. The pupils receive the statute of pupils civil servant-trainees, commit themselves serving the State for one 10 years period (their schooling with the ENS included/understood); this clause of “decennial engagement” is variously applied. They are also committed passing the aggregation or a Master seeks (or, in rare cases, a professional Master). As a Civil servant S, they perceive at the beginning of their studies with the ENS a treatment of approximately: 1200 € per month (: 1350 € as from the second year) and are subjected to the statute of the public office. Each year, all the pupils establish, in agreement with the management of the studies, their program of studies. Any pupil not managing to validate the diplomas or contests envisaged in this program of studies can be put on “leave without treatment” (thus, losing its remuneration temporarily), to even be returned, at the end of several failures (in theory at least but this sanction is almost never applied).

The normal mode is the Internat; however, the clause of the payment making the boarding school obligatory for the nonmarried pupils is not applied. Three sites accommodate the interns: the site of Ulm (to the 45 and the 46), the site of Jourdan, in the 14 {{E}} district of Paris, and finally that of Montrouge, in Parisian outskirts of the city (see low thurnage ).

There was recently a reform of the schooling and mode of the diplomas with the ENS. the ENS had the characteristic not to deliver any diploma. For certain disciplines exist formations organized by the ENS in collaboration with universities of the Paris region, whose courses take place with the ENS before the level m2; those were in the past named Magistère S. Of the students admitted to prepare the diploma resulting from French or foreign universities as of the preparatory classes can follow these courses after a selection on file. Let us quote the examples of the mathematical and data processing (FIMFA) of the physical (Studies prédoctorales of physics) and chemistry (Training in chemistry). Although the ENS has in the regular manner the capacity to deliver Doctorat S and other diplomas, it did not do it.

The formation with the ENS follows the European course LMD (License, Master, Doctorat).

Usually in first year, the pupils validate their L3, in second M1 and a 6 months training course, in third their m2 and/or aggregation, in fourth is they validate what they did not do before, is they begin their thesis. Some of magistères partially or were completely replaced by of Masters.

With the length of their schooling, the pupils must validate a foreign language (two six-month periods of weekly courses), and courses in a discipline other than their principal discipline if they want to obtain the diploma of the ENS, lately created.

Outlets

The majority of the normaliens are devoted to the Enseignement and the Recherche. A minority with the possibility of joining the large body technical of the State (Body of the Mines, Body of the Highways Departments, Body of the administrators of INSEE, Body of Télécoms, etc), or of making ENA (generally after being last by the Institute of political studies of Paris in parallel). Lastly, a smaller minority still joined the private sector.

Buildings

It is the November 4th 1847 which the ENS settled in its buildings (envisaged by the law of the April 24th 1841) of the street of Ulm.

The current buildings comprise:

historical buildings of 45, rue d'Ulm. Those are organized in square around the central court, said “court to Ernests”, square to which come to join two more recent wings, in the North-East the wing “Érasme” (of street name which skirt the School to north) and the wing “Rataud” in the south-east (of the street name which skirts the School to the east). In the south of the square, another court, known as “Pasteur court” separates the School from the residential buildings of the street Claude Bernard. Lastly, a new building, known as “(New) Real Rataud” skirts the street Rataud and connects the Érasme wings and Rataud of the principal buildings. These buildings contain, in addition to the direction of the School, of many literary departments (philosophy, literature and language, old studies, archeology…) and scientists (mathematical, data processing…) as well as the very large library of the letters and the library of mathematics-data processing, company flats and boarding schools, administrative services, the restaurant (“pot”), etc

buildings of 46 rue d'Ulm, called “appendix”. One finds there the laboratories of biology as well as other boarding schools of the School, and an underground car park.

buildings of 29 rue d'Ulm, used primarily by administrative services.

buildings of physics, chemistry and sciences of the Earth of 24 rue Lhomond.

buildings of 48 boulevard Jourdan, old local (since 1940) of the National university of young girls, where are social sciences, a second restaurant, and other boarding schools.

buildings of Montrouge (1 rue Maurice Arnoux), mainly of the boarding schools.

Court in Ernests

The historical building of the School is built in square around a court centered on a basin containing of fish (coordinated geographical. These fish are called “Ernest” (name of the former principal, Ernest Bersot, which would have brought them) and are one of the semi-official symbols of the School as well as the logo of the association of the pupils. By extension this court is called “court in Ernests”, and the hall of the School which gives on this court is called “Aquarium”.

All around the court are the busts of forty French great men (some, but not all, of the normaliens) which were illustrated in disciplines represented with the ENS: scientists in the northern part and men of letters in the southern part. While turning in the direction of the needles of a watch starting from the western entry of the court, it is:

on the western wall: Jouffroy, Buffon, Lagrange, Cauchy, Poisson;
on the northern wall: Fresnel, Amp, Foucault, Arago, Laplace, Biot, Pouillet, Lavoisier, Berthollet, Gay-Lussac;
on the wall is: St-Hilaire, Thénard, Beudant, Jussieu, Vat, Descartes, Pascal, Crow, Molière, Root;
on the southern wall: Boileau, the Fountain, Bossuet, Fénelon, Malebranche, the Heather, Massillon, Voltaire, Montesquieu, J.J.Rousseau;
on the western wall: Rollin, Lamartine, Chateaubriant, Aug. Thierry and Cousin.

The names appear each one under the corresponding bust, reproduced as indicated here. One can be astonished by the absence of Pasteur but a bust with its effigy is in the court which bears its name.

Jargon

The ENS uses a rich person jargon relating to the local characteristics. One does not know when this jargon was formed, undoubtedly in the neighborhoods of 1900. For a reason now forgotten, much by terms are inspired by “caiman”, South America, like “cacic”, “to tapir”…

A “room” or “thurne” is a room of boarding school (one speaks about “thurne of day” for parts of studies). The “thurnage” is the relatively complex procedure of attribution of the thurnes to the pupils as from the second year (the ENS has rooms on several sites and arranged differently, therefore differently appraisals).

Time of the rooms with two occupants, the joint tenant was called the “Co-room”. A “caiman” is a aggregate-preparer, i.e. a full-time teaching staff of the aggregation of the secondary and whose teaching primarily consists in preparing the pupils and the non-registered students with aggregation; it is usually of young researchers (less than 30 years). By extension, more particularly in the literary studies, a caiman is very teaching ENS.

“Cacique” is a major with the entrance examination of the ENS. By extension, one names “cacic” any person the classified first with the entrance examination at an university, aggregation, etc In beginning, “cacic” appointed a chief of tribe in Central America, this is why “cacic” is also used nowadays in the direction of leader, not without irony. Contrary, the last of promotion is sometimes indicated like the “culal”. A “archicube” is a former student. The directory of the former students is the “archicubier”.

The “pot” indicates the restaurant of the School, the service is assured midday and evening there. The breakfast is also proposed, under the name of “small-pot”. By extension, the word pot indicates about all that has a close or remote relationship with food. For example, “it is pot” means that it is the hour to go to eat, the “pot” is also the nickname of the intendant, etc One spoke formerly about “goimarder”, which consists for a archicube with always attending the pot (the term comes from the name of Jacques Goimard).

The “deleuze” is the noise which the normaliens make when they badly ate with the “pot” and that the references of food painfully frayent a way in the esophagus. The word of “deleuze” thus comes from the “noise characteristic of the œs ophage” (noise frequently heard in library).

The cleaning ladies and more generally all the technicians of service were formerly called Sioux .

The “ernestisation” consists in throwing a person in the basin.

Each year takes place one weekend of integration of entering promotions, commonly called WEI in the other schools of engineers. At the ENS, this weekend is called the “Méga” in reference to an antique tradition consisting with prosterner in front of a fossil of the “Megatherium”, preserved at the Library of the letters. This fossil has had for summer yielded to the national Muséum natural history. The association of the pupils, officially the AEENS, are generally named COF (for “Steering Committee of the festivals”); one will obviously never speak about “ office of the élèves ”.

One “to tapir” (reference to the “small animal with the insipid but nutritive flesh”) is a pupil to whom a normalien gives private lessons. “Tapirat” and “tapirer” result from this.

Each year, are indicated by the normaliens catholic confession of the “princes” and “princesses Catholic student”, nickname which the pupils of the public school launched to the pupils of private (the “Catholic student”, “those which T with”); those manage and animate the catholic chaplaincy of the ENS. It is the same for the Protestant normaliens which appoint their prince or princess “talo” (“who T with O”). Since March 1981, the chaplaincy Catholic student is assumed by the father Jean-Robert Armogathe.

Community life

Community life is organized around the COF (the usual name of the association of the pupils, to see above).

The social actions of the normaliens are federated by the Social action coed. One can note the action of the normaliens in favor of the social opening of the Universities, in particular via the Association Springboard and Animath.

See too

on December 10th, 1923, in the room Tile maker, was inaugurated war memorials carved by Paul Landowski, in the fields of the architect Guilbert, it comprised 239 names then. According to the words of the principal Mr. Gustave Lanson the naked figure symbolizes “the torch of spiritual energy and the scientific truth.” Source: Art and decoration, 1924.

List of the directors of the National university (Ulm)
: Category: Normalien
List of the famous normaliens alphabetically
List of the normaliens famous for promotion
the Jargon normalien

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