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( École Normale Supérieure)
The École normale supérieure (also known as Normale Sup’, Normale, ENS, ENS-Paris, ENS-Ulm or Ulm) is a French grande école (higher education establishments outside the mainstream framework of the public universities system). Initially conceived to provide the Republic, under the Revolution, with a new body of teachers, trained in the critical spirit and secular values of the Enlightenment, the ENS developed since as an elite institution which does not deliver degrees as such but grooms France's finest to exercise high level careers, and serve the Nation. Its alumni have provided France with scores of philosophers, writers, scientists, statesmen and even churchmen of the highest calibre. Women had, for a long time, their own separate ENS. The two were merged, after some heated debate, into a single entity, with its main campus at the historical "rue d'Ulm" site. The ENS system and ethos is little understood outside France[citation needed], although it has been copied, since Napoleonic times, in Italy, for instance. Still, it was named first university of continental Europe by the Times Higher Education supplement[1]. In 2007, the World University Ranking (2007) ranked it only 83rd (worldwide), 26th (EU), 3rd (France). Its main campus is located around the rue d'Ulm (Ulm Street, the main building being at 45, rue d'Ulm) in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. The ENS has annex campuses on Boulevard Jourdan (previously, the women college) (48°49'21?N 2°19'53?E? / ?48.822439, 2.331312, in Paris) and in Montrouge (a suburb; 48°49'15?N 2°18'55?E? / ?48.820742, 2.315180), as well as a biology annex in the countryside at Foljuif. Three other "écoles normales supérieures" have been established in 19th century the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (sciences); the École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines (humanities) in Lyon; the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (pure and applied sciences, sociology, economics and management, English language) in Cachan. These schools challenge the supremacy of the ENS-Ulm[2]. However, they make up the informal ENS-group. For this reason the ENS in Paris is often called 'ENS-Paris' or 'ENS-Ulm'.
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