Until now,the Paris Institute of Political Studies, commonly known as Sciences Po, is the only grande ecole to have aggressively sought out a more diverse student body.
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She returned to Paris, studied law at the University of Paris X and then political science at the InstituteofPoliticalStudies in Aix-en-Provence.
Luciano Dias of the Brazilian InstituteofPoliticalStudies sees in this the start of a durable centre-left alliance that could realign the country's politics.
"He appears to have drifted into a parallel world where he picked and chose elements to build himself a new identity, " said Jean-Pierre Filiu, a professor in the Middle East department at the Paris InstituteofPoliticalStudies.