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and things like that count in France.
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He obtained a scholarship to Paris--
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this is rather again like Maximilien robespierre,
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but they were very, very different people
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and wouldn't have liked each other at all--
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and he gets into the école Normale Supérieure,
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which is one of the grands écoles
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or the big fancy schools in Paris.
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And he did brilliantly.
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He was third behind Henri Bergson,
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a famous guy,
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and a forgotten school-teacher.