French-inspired colonial-era education for a talented elite - les évolués - had much to do with it.
With a campaign anchored by attacks on the European Union, immigrants and what he chastises as a corrupt government elite, Mr. Le Pen collected about 5.8 million votes today.
Education and career: Went to private Catholic school, then the elite Louis-le-Grand Lycée followed by the even more elite École Polytechnique, where she qualified as an engineer.
"Keep your friends close but your enemies even closer", he is reported as saying and he used to keep the Zairean elite, known as les grands légumes (the big vegetables), dancing from ministries to ambassadorships to posts to prison to exile and back again.
Image caption Protesters want the removal of all the governing elite, known as "Le Pouvoir" If he and the rest of the old guard remain in place there can be no chance of free and fair elections, according to Mehdi Feloussi, a stylishly dressed young entrepreneur who is a regular at the protests.
A poll suggested that 39% of the French approved of Ms Le Pen's comment.Such views, which she presents as common sense to voters disillusioned with the political elite, have scored Ms Le Pen some electoral success, particularly in working-class bits of northern France battered by joblessness and turned off by Mr Sarkozy as well as by the far left.
Running back Mark Ingram said on Twitter that he and three of his teammates, as well as two other companions, were turned away from the elite Soho club Cirque Le Soir even though they had reservations, reports The Guardian.
"Le Rosey seeks neither an intellectual elite nor a set of 'model' students," the Le Rosey brochure notes.
"Le Rosey seeks neither an intellectual elite nor a set of 'model' students," a Le Rosey brochure notes.
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Le Corbusier led the elite international team of Modernist architects who designed the original structure.
