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The founding of the École polytechnique — The decree of 11 March 1794 creating the École centrale des travaux publics, renamed polytechnique in 1795
The Republic lacked engineers and its schools had to be remade. A decree of the Convention created a central school of public works whose first curriculum, mathematics and physics, was drawn up by Gaspard Monge; it took its present name the following year, and Napoleon militarised it in 1804. It has since borne a motto: For the Homeland, Science, and Glory. (Editorial synthesis)
The founding of the École polytechnique took place on 11 March 1794. (source: École polytechnique)
The founding of the École polytechnique ended in a central school of public works to train engineers, renamed polytechnique the following year. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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