The École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (also known as Mines ParisTech, 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, a generalist school, one of the Grandes écoles and a prestigious member of ParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology).
Despite its small size (fewer than 120 students accepted each year), it is a crucial part of the infrastructure of French industry.
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| Established | 1783 |
| Type | Grandes Ecoles |
| Location | Paris, France |
| Campus | Paris, Fontainebleau, Évry, Sophia-Antipolis |
| Affiliations | ParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology), Conférence des Grandes Ecoles |
| Website | [1], [2] |
Created by a decree of the King's Counsel on March 19th 1783, the first school of mines was located in the Hôtel de la Monnaie, in Paris.
This school disappeared at the beginning of the French revolution but was re-established by a decree of the Committee of Public Safety in 1794, the 13th messidor year II. It moved to Savoie, after a decree of the consuls the 23rd pluviôse year X (1802)
After the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, the school moved to the Hôtel de Vendôme (all along the Jardin du Luxembourg in the 6th arrondissement of Paris). From the sixties it also has annexes in Fontainebleau, Évry and Sophia-Antipolis (Nice).
Its former vocation to train mining engineers evolved in the course of time, because of technological progress and transformations of society. The École des Mines de Paris has become nowadays a "generalist" school, with a broad variety of disciplines. Its students are for the most part supposed to have management position in industrial companies and receive a good training not only in technical fields but also in economics and social sciences (e.g. a sociology of science course by Bruno Latour).
Mines ParisTech provides different educational paths:
With only fewer than 120 graduates each year, Mines Paris Tech's alumni is:
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Coordinates: 48°50′42″N 2°20′21″E / 48.844952°N 2.339193°E
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