TESTIMONIALS – While the written tests of the competition for the prestigious engineering school begin this Monday, portraits of these Polytechnicians who are charting their course, on the farm or in the mountains. Far from the careers that their prestigious diploma reserved for them.
The first writings begin this Monday for candidates at the prestigious Polytechnic school. Everyone dreams of joining theXin order to obtain his famous diploma, guaranteeing a dazzling career, a miraculous salary and an almost indestructible social recognition. But do all graduates become CEOs of CAC 40 companies or senior civil servants? Contrary to more conventional careers, Le Figaro went to meet these Polytechnicians who have chosen to be shepherds, market gardeners or farmers, off the beaten track. Looking elsewhere.
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“I wanted to be a research professor in mathematics at the universitysays Eudes, now a shepherd at the head of a flock of nearly 200 ewes in the hills of Drôme Provençale. When the young man joined Polytechnique in 2010 through university, he had to drop math for a while to do his compulsory military internship. “When you do high-level math, it’s like…
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