Paris School Wins Reprieve on Move
Students at one of France’s most elite schools have persuaded authorities not to banish them from Paris.
On Friday, the Council of State, which oversees the government’s administrative affairs, quashed a 1991 decision to transfer the Ecole Nationale d’Aministration to Strasbourg.
ENA was created in 1945 as a training ground for France’s leaders. Students and alumni decried the transfer to eastern France as an exile from the centers of power.
The prestigious school became a symbol of the former Socialist government’s unpopular decentralization program.
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