sentences:  Barbery was born in Casablanca, Morocco, but she and her parents moved when she was two months old.She studied at the Lycée Lakanal, entered the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud in 1990 and obtained her "agrégation" in philosophy in 1993.She then taught philosophy at the Université de Bourgogne, in a "lycée", and at the Saint-Lô IUFM (teacher training college).