The Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chasuees is selling their building in the heart of the 6th arrondisement. 10,000 square meters of history on the block. The ENPC is considered the oldest Civil engineering school in the world and one of the elite schools in France, and boy do the French know how to do elite ;) I think our mascot was the beret.
I learned how to smoke like a pro, drink coffee and cop a French accent while writing my masters thesis on quantitative approaches to commodity hedge funds and hanging out in the Jardin de Luxembourg. As an anthropology & art history undergrad, Paris was an amazing place to experience art and another culture. Unfortunately my French grammar skills never let me be more than a man of the present moment, Je suis...... I can still order wine and a tasty meal in French, but gave up the smoking while living in Sweden one summer. Ah Scandinavia...
More pictures of the place are here.
Here is the Economist advertisement for those of you wishing to put a bid on the place.
