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 | | The name Sciences Po refers to three institutions, l'École Libre des Sciences Politiques (founded in 1872) and replaced in 1945 by the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (FNSP), a research foundation, which manages the Institut d'Études Politiques (IEP), a teaching school. |
 | | Sciences Po was established in 1872 as the École Libre des Sciences Politiques (ELSP) by a group of intellectuals, politicians and businessmen including Hippolyte Taine, Ernest Renan, Albert Sorel, Paul Leroy Beaulieu, François Guizot, and led by Emile Boutmy. |
 | | Following the defeat in the 1870 war, the demise of Napoleon III, the Paris Commune, these men sought to introduce new teaching reforms in order to renew the training of French politicians. |
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