École normale supérieure de jeunes filles

The École normale supérieure de jeunes filles was a French Grande école in Sèvres, which was established specifically for women's studies.

The ENSJF created on the initiative of the politician Camille Sée with the law of 29 July 1881 establishing the Ecole Normale of professeurs - femmes de Sèvres.

She was from 1881 to 1940 in the former Royal Porcelain Factory at Sèvres was sold there under the occupation and moved in 1948 to the Boulevard Jourdan in the fourteenth arrondissement of Paris in temporary buildings that were never rebuilt. The planned accommodation in Montrouge was never realized who built premises were eventually assigned to the ENS rue d' Ulm.

On the initiative of the last director Josiane Heulot -Serre it merged in 1985 with the ( hitherto reserved for male students ) École Normale Supérieure ( rue d' Ulm ) to form a new joint ENS. This - supported by the Director of ENS rue d' Ulm Georges Poitou - operation met with parts of the ENS rue d' Ulm some resistance, which saw as the École de Sèvres less prestigiös, and also because of the differences in status between teachers both institutions. ( The teachers of the École de Sèvres were taken as professors, while the teachers of the ENS rue d' Ulm Maîtres de Conférences were. )

The most famous teacher was Marie Curie, who taught there from 1900. After 1903, the Nobel Prize for Physics, in 1904, she was appointed to the Sorbonne.

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• Grande école
• University in Paris