Crossword-Solution: NORMALE 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Having gone to Paris with his mother in 1842, he began his studies at the College Bourbon and in 1848 was promoted to the ecole Normale.

Such is the object of the "École Normale."[6144] Young students enter it at the age of seventeen and bind themselves to remain in the University at least ten years.[6145] Young students enter it at the age of seventeen (for a period of 3 years) and bind themselves afterwards to remain in the University at least ten years.

When he had arrived on 30 October 1848 Taine wrote to Cornélis de Witt: "Here I am in the convent and prisoner for three years." (SR.)] [Footnote 6146: I note, however, that the École Normale Superior produced Taine, and it seemed to have had the same effect upon him as by boarding school and its similar regime upon me, namely of making me informed and rebellious.

Taine was well placed to know about the system since he was first in the competetive entrance exam (concours) to the École Normale Superior, and had also passed all his other studies with great brilliance.

From 1830 to the beginning of our period (1851) Cousin, as director of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, as a _pair de France_ and a minister of state, organised and controlled the education of his country.