General informations about the DG

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That's rather easy, but don't worry, we are very patient, except for subletting. If you really want us to show you our evil side, you can try :

• cheating at a thurnage;
• explaining to us that your case is much more important and has a higher priority than your neighbour's, and that we need to deal with it immediately;
• try not to go through us to get something that only we are supposed to give out (e.g. rooms, parking cards, lockers keys...);
• subletting your room;
• exchanging your room without telling us;
• asking a dégé·e for anything and, if his/her answer has not been wished for, asking another dégé for the same thing;
• asking us questions that are answered on this website. 

Even though you may be in a hurry, stressed out and irritated by the reason that brings you to us, remember that the members of the DG will do everything in their power to find a solution to your problem, so if they tell you that it's not possible, it's not out of malice. So being kind and polite with the degé-es is the basic attitude to adopt!

• Read this website before asking us questions;
• Say nice stuff about the DG, dégé·e·s and this website;
• Write lisibly on all written forms;
• Bring us pancakes. We love pancakes.

If you too dream of being tall, handsome and strong, you can run for the DG elections. They take place twice a year, in October and March, and any student of the ENS who is still at school can stand for election (e.g. an élève, an international student, or an étudiant·e* who has not finished her/his studies at the ENS). If you are tempted, do not hesitate to contact us to know more about the work it involves!

The DG can provide temporary or permanent parking access to the car park at 46 rue d'Ulm. All details are explained in the Practical informations section.

For this purpose you can also read the annex to the parking regulations.

The DG only deals with the car park at 46 rue d'Ulm (basement of the Annexe). For Montrouge, you have to contact the Montrouge security to obtain the procedure to follow (securite[dot]monrouge[at]ens[dot]fr), giving them your full name, e-mail address, telephone number, number plate and the reason for the request.

The good old days when you could simply arrive and exchange your ENS card for a parking card are over.

it is resistant to mould and parasites (rodents, cockroaches and other friendly bugs)https://www.dg.ens.fr/en/reglement/malles/There are trunk rooms on all the school's campuses. At Ulm, they are in the second basement of the Annexe. At Montrouge there are 5: MA1713, MB303, MB503, MC303, MC503. At Jourdan there are two in the basement of Hypnos 1 (JH1S-15 and JH1S-24) and one in the basement of Hypnos 2 (JH2S-06).

A short guide to find the Ulm trunk room (once you have got the key from the Security PC):

• enter the Annex at 44 rue d'Ulm
• take the stairs or the lift and go down to the -2 floor. Be careful: there are two ground floors, so going down to -2 is like going down 3 floors.
• push several doors until you reach the car park (for one of the doors you must use the badge that comes with the key).
• once you are in the car park, make a sharp turn to your left and use the key to enter the trunk room!

To get the key, you just have to make a request for access on degette, then go and get it at the lodge of the appropriate campus. An ENS card (or any identity document) will be requested in exchange for this key.

Only properly labelled metal trunks are allowed. Other forms of storage and trunks not in order may be removed by the DG at any time. This is specified in the annex for the trunk rooms rules for the use of the trunk rooms.

Why?

To make it easier to move things around the trunk room (to empty it, to tidy it up or to look for other things) the items stored must be :

• large, to store everything together and not have fifteen bags scattered around
• solid (hence the metal), because they will be moved around
• well labelled, don't hesitate to put a label on each side
• that it can be stored well and therefore easily stacked (and for this a solid parallelepiped shape is ideal)
• resistant to mould and parasites (rodents, cockroaches and other friendly bugs)

It is permitted to store (packed) mattresses and whole pieces of furniture (including fridges) in the period from 1 June to 1 October. Don't forget to declare them on Degette as personal trunks.

We will systematically refuse all requests to store suitcases and boxes for the reasons mentioned above.

Rooms of the Carré are big and rather beautiful, some have even mezzanines. As lots of people enjoy these rooms, you have to use two or, most of the times three jokers to live in there.

There is a very pleasant view for half of them, whose windows open on the Courô ; though, there are rather noisy, especially in spring, when the people often end their night party outside. K-Fêt music is to be heard on C stairways : don't ask a room there if you can't stand noise!

The other rooms in Ulm (Rataud, Erasme, Annexe and NIR) are smaller but still nice (for most of them). Most of the time, they are attributed for first year students and PE (international students which are not SI).

Rataud and Erasme are both located in the historical building and have been recently renovated. The ambiance in there is rather good, as people most of the time know their room neighbours and meet in the very nice kitchen.

The ambiance is very nice in the Annexe too ; the major problem of this building is that sound-insulation... well, there is no sound-insulation.

Sound-insulation is quite efficient in the NIR but this batiment has some thermic insulation problems since it was built. The ambiance is much quieter than in other corridors, which is not that bad when you are supposed to work on your exams. The kitchen are quite big too.

Equipped with a classroom building and brand new dormitories, Jourdan houses the departments of economics, social sciences et geography. The rooms are therefore mainly occupied by first-year students (especially in Hypnos 2), PE students and people taking courses on the campus, but also by people attracted by the green setting (and the Montsouris park just next door).

The Hypnos 2 building, whose rooms are given priority to first-year students, is brand new: it has been completely redone for the start of the school year in 2021.

The rooms at Montrouge are slightly larger than the first-year students' rooms at Ulm, with a shower in the room. The towers are organised in floors of 16 rooms at the most, often with a trunk room on the odd floors, and a kitchen on each floor. The atmosphere is generally very friendly, as the floors are formed by groups of friends. In general, the lower floors are the quietest; the party people are at the top of the towers.

Available since 2017 only, a number of studios F2 to F4 are available in Montrouge's L tower. Their number varies at each TG but all have living rooms, kitchen, shower-toilet and a variable number of bedrooms (consult the plans for a better view).

Their particularity is that they are rented for 11 months (from 1st September to 31st July with 11-month leases). The prices are fixed by a CA decision. The prices are currently as follows:

• F2: 825€/month, one person on the lease
• F3: 1100€/month, two people on the lease (therefore only available for pairs)
• F4: 1302€/month, three people on the lease (only available for trios)

They are reserved for international students, in particular International Selection students, and are located in the Tombe Issoire and Daviel residences, the rents are a little higher than the fees at the dormitories (between 350 and 380€), but they have a kitchen and an individual bathroom.If there are not enough SI applications, scholarship holders can apply.

Those wishing to apply for an exthurnes must put "CROUS" at the top of their wishes at the TG.