Mines ParisTech (officially École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (Mines ParisTech), also known as École des Mines de Paris, ENSMP, Mines Paris or simply les Mines) was created in 1783 by King Louis XVI in order to train intelligent directors of mines. It is one of the most prominent French engineering schools (i.e. Grandes écoles) and a prestigious member of ParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology).
Despite its small size (fewer than 120 students are accepted each year, after a very selective exam), it is a crucial part of the infrastructure of French industry.
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“Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark:M”I wasn’t worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.””
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)