In post-war France higher education was still held to be the preserve of the upper echelons of society. With the baby boom by the end of the 1950s in full swing, a lack of resources meant a drop in the quality of education.
二次戰後的法國，受高等教育仍是上層社會的專利，到了五○年代末期，戰後嬰兒潮已逐漸長成，更加僧多粥少，教學品質也日形低落。