Lycée Condorcet in Paris for the two-year khâgne course, and was a classmate at the École Normale Supérieure of Jean-Paul Sartre and Georges Canguilhem. These memoirs (published in English translation in 1990) illustrate the social differences between the education of the intellectual elite in France and in other countries, largely deriving from the unique curriculum and method of the khâgne. In The Human Stain, Philip Roth details the life story of Delphine Roux, a character who was educated in Henri IV's khâgne and became a normalienne. He also describes the intellectual life of khâgneux in the Latin Quarter, from the point of view of the main character, Coleman Silk. Jaesusaeng Gaokao Rōnin External links “Qu'est-ce que la khâgne ?”. A 60' podcast, by Renée Elkaim-Bollinger, initially broadcast 19 Dec 1996 on French public radio France Culture. References Academic slang Education in France