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You can put your child in ecoles maternel, which are pre-school and it's free and it lasts from 8:30-4:30 ... so you can work all day and you don't have to pay anything for that except for the lunch at noon, Rouyer said.

Western European Women Look for Middle Ground between Careers, Family 2011

You can put your child in ecoles maternel, which are pre-school and it's free and it lasts from 8:30-4:30 ... so you can work all day and you don't have to pay anything for that except for the lunch at noon, Rouyer said.

Western European Women Look for Middle Ground between Careers, Family 2011

The French offset this with highly elitist post-graduate "grandes ecoles" in the Paris suburbs, including one attended by William Hague, though it did not cure the foreign secretary of an inappropriate dress sense.

We need an educated workforce – and an educated citizenry 2010

In "Murder in the Latin Quarter," the crime is set against the backdrop of the Sorbonne and the Grandes ecoles — the city's centuries-old bastions of learning.

In Paris, A Mystery Writer Whose Name Is 'Noir' 2009

In "Murder in the Latin Quarter," the crime is set against the backdrop of the Sorbonne and the Grandes ecoles — the city's centuries-old bastions of learning.

In Paris, A Mystery Writer Whose Name Is 'Noir' 2009

France's governance emanates from an elite corp of public servants, graduates of the "grands ecoles" who run the sinews of the Ministries of State.

Raymond J. Learsy: Tom Friedman's Take On "Wimps" and "The Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys" 2009

I agree that he is not a poor immigrant (he was the mayor of Neuilly which is THE poshest suburb of Paris) BUT he is not from the grandes ecoles (unlike Royal who went to ENA) and he does break the mold a little – speaking of positive discrimination in France is very new for instance.

Matthew Yglesias » La France Multiculty 2007

Most importantly, he triumphed as an anti-establishmentarian promising to break up the old elites trained in the "grandes ecoles" and free up the entrepreneurial environment, long encased in a paralytic bureaucracy.

Benjamin R. Barber: Misreading the French Election 2008

Until then, however, I remain convinced that the “root cause” of the rioting lies elsewhere: an economy that inhibits entrepreneurship and jobs creation and a society that fraudulently claims to be color-blind while excluding people of color from the institutions required for social advancement (no motel or laundrette for you, Abdul, and no place at the grandes ecoles, either).

Melting pot v. bouillabaisse « BuzzMachine 2005

They are not to be found in the grandes ecoles nor are they in the board rooms and they barely even have a showing in politics.

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