École des Arts et Métiers
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Former names
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ENSAM (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers), Ecole impériale d'Arts et Métiers, Ecole d'Arts et Métiers |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1780 |
| Budget | €124.6 M (in 2011) |
| President | Laurent Champaney |
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Academic staff
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600 |
| Students | 6200 |
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Paris, France 48°50′03″N 2°21′27″E / 48.834066°N 2.357453°E |
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Paris, Aix-en-Provence, Angers, Lille, Bordeaux, Châlons-en-Champagne, Cluny, Metz |
| Institutes | Bastia, Chambéry, Chalon-sur-Saône |
| Colors | Purple Orange (colour) |
| Nickname | Gadzarts |
| Affiliations | ParisTech, France AEROTECH, CGE |
| Website | www |
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Paris, Aix-en-Provence, Angers, Lille, Bordeaux,
Arts et Métiers ParisTech is a French engineering and research graduate school (Grande Ecole). It is a general engineering school recognized for leading French higher education in the fields of mechanics and industrialization. Founded in 1780, it is among the oldest French institutions and is one of the most prestigious engineering schools in France .
The school has trained 85,000 engineers since its foundation by the Duke of La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt. It is a "Public Scientific, Cultural and Professional Institution" (EPSCP) under the authority of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and has the special status of Grand établissement. The École nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers (ENSAM), which adopted the brand name "Arts et Mėtiers ParisTech" in 2007, was a founding member of ParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology), héSam and France AEROTECH.
Arts et Métiers ParisTech consists of eight Teaching and Research Centres (CER) and three institutes spread across the country. Its students are called Gadz'Arts.
The school was founded in Liancourt, Oise, by Duke of Rochefoucauld-Liancourt in 1780; it was originally meant to provide in-depth training for military dragoon officers children. After 1800, the institution became known as the École d'Arts et Métiers.
Under Napoleon's reign, it was known as the "Ecole impériale des Arts et Métiers". He intended to use the school to train "Non-commissioned officers of Industry". The empire decided to move the school to a bigger city, Compiègne, in 1799. When Napoléon Bonaparte visited the castle where the school was located, he thought that it was inappropriate for such an industrial school to occupy the place. He decided to relocate the school to Chalons-en-Champagne in 1806, where two former monasteries were made available to offer much more space.
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