<p>D1 is a “Normalienne”, but in the humanities, which is a different ball-game as it rarely leads to well-paid prestigious jobs other than university professorships (a striking counter-example is former president Georges Pompidou). When l’Ecole Normale was founded, it was to provide France with high school teachers, not world leaders, and the fact that students are paid a salary (not a stipend) throughout their 4 years of study , are morally obliged to take the agr</p>