These two elite schools, which produce 500 or so French graduates a year, dominate the boards of France's biggest companies.
La Pétanque was opened earlier this year by a coterie of young French graduates who now run a string of bars around the city.
Fruition Sciences, a company founded by two French graduate students, applies heat sensors to vine branches to measure how fast sap flows through them, and thus how much water is transpiring through the plant.
Britain is regarded as one of the few places French graduates can start a globe-trotting career.The Eurostar train has also played a role, bringing companies as well as tourists.
In 2008, a bright, 22-year-old French graduate called Antoine Deltour went to work for PwC in Luxembourg, full of hope about working for one of the best employers in the world.
A graduate of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, the elite French graduate school for civil servants, and a quintessential product of the French system, Mr Messier took a water and sewage-treatment utility, the 149-year-old Compagnie Générale des Eaux, added to it Universal Studios and a bagful of other media assets and transformed it into a glamorous, American-oriented enterprise.
Some of his best performances -- as the young American traveler who falls in love with a French graduate student in "Before Sunrise" (1995) or as Hamlet in Michael Almereyda's stylized update of the Shakespeare tragedy in 2000 -- were overshadowed by tabloid attention to his romance and marriage to Ms. Thurman.
In this article, we argue for the need for new pedagogical solutions in the elite French Graduate Schools of Engineering and Management, in order to deal with the challenges represented by globalization.
Blanchard says the idea dates back to a meeting he had in a Paris bar 3 years ago with a French graduate student, Jean-Emmanel Hugonnet, who wanted to work in his lab on fundamental questions about enzyme kinetics.
When French graduate Sandrine Etienne-Manneville inquired about the possibility of doing a postdoc in his lab, Alan Hall, then a principal investigator at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at University College London, invited her for a visit.
