polytechnique
“a response to the industrial needs…”
-- Ecole
Polytechnique, 1794, first training centre for engineers and architects.
(Gaspard Monge, Jean-Nicolas, Durand)
established a teaching model, the “modele polytechnique” which was imitated
in Europe and the USA. French Revolution, enlisted by Louis XVI to the
aggrandizement of France’s status in the world.
