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école du gouvernement, state school; the French government supports several boarding-schools for the proper training of young men for the service of the state; prominent among these schools are l'École polytechnique, for engineering, l'École normale, for teaching, and l'École de Saint-Cyr, corresponding to West Point. Admission to these schools is by competitive examination, and upon graduation the student receives a bachelor's degree and is given the choice of a position under the government or of resigning.