The Ecole Polytechnique was founded on the republican ideals of 1789 to which Monge was an ardent convert. The rise of the Empire led to student discontent. In 1804 Napoleon imposed military rules on the school including the boarding of all students. He moved the school from its buildings in the Palais-Bourbon in Paris, to the outskirts of the ...

In this chapter we present the École polytechnique as a school that embodied major changes as a direct result of the French Revolution. It was a bourgeois school that selected highly trained...

École polytechnique (French pronunciation: [ekɔl pɔlitɛknik], lit. 'Polytechnic School'; also known as Polytechnique or l'X [liks]) is a grande école located in Palaiseau, France. It specializes in science and engineering and is a founding member of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris. [3]

Arriving from northern Europe in 1798, the very first foreign students begin attending École Polytechnique. Around 50 École Polytechnique students, along with a dozen professors and faculty members, accompany General Napoleon Bonaparte on his excursion to Egypt .

The French Revolution exhibits such characteristics in generous measure in the years following its occurrence in 1789. For the engineering profession three dangers arose from the ensuing chaos.

L' histoire de l' École polytechnique commence en 1794, lorsque quelques savants décident d'organiser une nouvelle « École centrale des travaux publics », afin de faire face à la pénurie d'ingénieurs et de cadres supérieurs.

L’École polytechnique, fondée en 1794, est l’un des établissements d’enseignement supérieur français les plus prestigieux. Si elle a fait l’objet de nombreuses études historiques, il n’existe pas, à ce jour, de synthèse retraçant l’ensemble de son histoire.

2020年3月12日 · For example, l’École polytechnique was the place where Gaspard Monge’s (1746–1818 AD) newborn theory of geometry was taught but then practically applied to technical drawings in order to build physical structures, such as bridges, as well as to serve the military.

2020年3月12日 · By the middle of nineteenth century, the mechanization of French industry became well organized by a well-prepared technocracy. Therefore, the École polytechnique not only trained state civil engineers or military officers …

2005年3月1日 · The important role played by the Ecole Polytechnique in the resurgence of science in France after the French Revolution, and its progress ever since, has led to much historical work on its...