Most of those in the top reaches of not only the civil service and the judiciary, but also politics, business, and academia used to be graduates of the famous grandes écoles . Many then went through the rigorous training to become inspecteurs de finance , senior state officials.
在很多人的眼中，法国是精英政治的缩影。不仅公务和立法机构的高层官员，就连政治、企业和学术界的资深人物都是著名高等学府的毕业生。很多人为成为国家高官接受了严格的培训。