This former President of the Republic never won his college certificate, passed in 1968.
He became President of the Republic without ever having obtained his college diploma! And it is not for lack of accumulating other diplomas, some of which are much more prestigious. The ex-head of the French state in question indeed sports on his CV the baccalaureate with the mention “Pretty well” and a law degree at the University Panthéon-Assas after having studied at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris. . He also graduated from HEC Paris (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales) in 1975. This politician also graduated eighth from his class of ENA in 1980.
He then officiated for nine years at the Court of Auditors, and as a lecturer in economics at the IEP in Paris (until 1991). Not enough to prevent him from tracing his political career in parallel, which began in 1974 as president of the UNEF section at IEP Paris and punctuated by a position as project manager for the Élysée from 1981, following the election of François Mitterrand as President of the Republic.
“You have the right degree, the one I never had”
On December 14, 2019, during a graduation ceremony … of the patent in a college, this former president will however reveal never to have been admitted to this examination, presented in 1968. “You have the right diploma, the one that I never had”, then declared the senior politician to the 127 students who passed their DNB, out of the 150 to have passed it.
“Was I a bad middle school student? No. But I was in ninth grade in 1968. Fifty years ago, there was a great social movement in France – I’m not making any comparisons – and it was impossible to make any written exams. We had to make oral presentations in front of teachers, who were generally not there … And I did not have the BEPC. But I nevertheless got out of it, “said mischievously … François Hollande at the within the Jean-Lurçat establishment in Brive, in Corrèze, as reported by The mountain.