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Shepherd, market gardener, herbalist-gatherer: these Polytechnicians in search of elsewhere

2021-06-16T13:55:32.433Z


TESTIMONIALS - Far from the careers that their prestigious diploma reserved for them, these former students of l'X make their way, on the farm or in the mountains.


The first oral exams begin this Monday morning for those eligible for the prestigious Polytechnic school.

Everyone dreams of joining the “

X

” in order to obtain his famous diploma, guaranteeing a dazzling career, a staggering salary and almost indebted social recognition.

But do all graduates become CEOs of a CAC 40 company or a senior official?

Contrary to more conventional careers,

Le Figaro

went to meet these polytechnicians who have chosen to be a shepherd, market gardener or farmer, who have gone off the beaten track.

In search of elsewhere.

Read also: At Polytechnique, an almost ordinary elite competition

I wanted to be a teacher and researcher in mathematics at the university,

” says Eudes, now a shepherd-cheesemaker at the head of a flock of nearly 200 ewes in the hills of Drôme Provençale.

When the young man joined Polytechnique in 2010 through university, he had to drop maths for a while to do his compulsory military internship.

W hen we do math at high

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Source: lefigaro

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