École normal supérieure de jeunes filles

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The École normal supérieure de jeunes filles (ENSJF) was a French grande école in Sèvres that was founded specifically for the study of women .

history

The ENSJF was created on the initiative of the politician Camille Sée with the law of July 29, 1881 establishing the École normal des professeurs-femmes de Sèvres .

It was located in the former Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Sèvres from 1881 to 1940, was expelled there under the occupation and in 1948 moved to the Boulevard Jourdan in the fourteenth arrondissement of Paris to temporary buildings that were never rebuilt. The planned accommodation in Montrouge was never realized, and the premises that were built were finally assigned to the ENS Rue d'Ulm .

At the initiative of the last director Josiane Heulot-Serre , it merged in 1985 with the École Normale Supérieure (rue d'Ulm) (until then reserved for male students) to form a new joint ENS. This operation - supported by the director of the ENS Rue d'Ulm, Georges Poitou - met with some resistance from parts of the ENS Rue d'Ulm that the École de Sèvres viewed as less prestigious, and also because of the differences in status between teachers at both institutions. (The teachers of the École de Sèvres were taken on as professors, while the teachers of the ENS Rue d'Ulm were Maîtres de Conférences.)

The most famous teacher was Marie Curie , who taught there from 1900. After she received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 , she was appointed to the Sorbonne in 1904 .

Directors (1881–1988)

  • Julie Favre: 1881-1896
  • Henri Marion née Jeanne Marie Hall: 1896–1906
  • Louise Belugou: 1906-1919
  • Anne Amieux: 1919-1936
  • Eugénie Cotton : 1936-1941
  • Edmée Hatinguais: 1941-1944
  • Lucy Prenant: 1944-1956
  • Marie-Jeanne Durry: 1956–1974
  • Josiane Serre: 1974–1988

Professors (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florence Weber, directrice du département de sciences socialesde l'ENS ( Memento of May 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), from February 2010 on www.ens.fr (pdf)