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Paul Veyne

Palmyra: An irreplaceable treasure by Paul Veyne, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan

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March 2018, no. 399

France’s higher education system can seem arcane to outsiders, especially those from the English-speaking world. Although the Sorbonne is coeval with Oxford and Cambridge, there is far greater prestige in attending one of the Grandes Écoles such as Polytechnique or the École Normale Supérieure, only accessible by notoriously ...

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