[OC] Chances to attend a "Grande Ecole (Top university) in France. If you want to attend "ENA", the best university in France, you have 330x chances if your father graduated from there.
Submitted by pacmanpill t3_yat1hj in dataisbeautiful
> noble family
…Didn’t they do a whole revolution to try to get away from having a landed aristocracy?
OP wrote Nobel, so I understood it as having a Nobel prize winning family name. :D
no op made a mistake it is indeed noble not nobel
Tbh that would make sense why they get in more
Multiple revolutions, but France let the nobles keep their titles without the degree of power and influence they had before. In theory anyway.
Yeah, "in theory". "In reality" seems to have become a different animal.
Names carry a lot of cachet regardless. Here's an article on how much influence French nobility still wield even though they technically have little legal standing in France:
How is that your take away from this article, when it's just a ton of people debating whether they should be called nobles ?
Stripping nobility of their political privileges while letting them keep their wealth effectively amounts to nothing; the former noblemen simply become the top players of the capitalist game.
I completely agree, because that's precisely what's happened IRL. Aristocrats, like billionaires, should not exist, and their power base (primarily money/assets/whatever political authority they've acquired) needs to be stripped from them entirely.
They still unofficially hold titles, and they have particles like Du Château instead of Château or Duchâteau
Lower case "de", actually. Jean de La Fontaine, e.g.
It comes from a french study (that I stumbled upon recently), so I assume OP just mistranslated and meant influent/rich/powerful/top 1%. We don't have "official" nobility anymore, eventhough some families retain titles.
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