The Free School of Political Sciences from which I graduated (1999) will forgive me for diverting the words of a pope to characterize the crisis of a republican institution.
However, for many former students, we no longer recognize the school that trained us.
When I passed through the heavy bronze doors of Rue Saint-Guillaume, a young provincial moving to the capital, I discovered a school that had a great impact on me.
There was an incredible intellectual vitality there.
At the end of the 1990s, the Paris IEP was unionically dominated by the left and the far left and the teaching staff was readily Euroglobalist.
However, despite the fact that I was probably in the political minority there, I flourished there.
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