French engineering grande école (selective higher education institution)

Reactionary technologists : the struggle over the École Polytechnique, 1880-1914 / Terry Shinn.

Savoir scientifique et pouvoir social : l'École polytechnique, 1794-1914 / Terry Shinn ; préf. de François Furet.

Collections XII : on the transformation of the Ecole Polytechnique archives / I. Grattan-Guinness.

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Reactionary technologists : the struggle over the École Polytechnique, 1880-1914 / Terry Shinn.

Savoir scientifique et pouvoir social : l'École polytechnique, 1794-1914 / Terry Shinn ; préf. de François Furet.

Collections XII : on the transformation of the Ecole Polytechnique archives / I. Grattan-Guinness.