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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Famous quotes containing the word mines:
“The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained is not the same thing with the wages of honest toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he has seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the fact is not so obvious.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)