Saclay, a French Silicon Valley far from the worries of civil society

It was disrupted by an international jury that sanctioned it, at the end of April, with a "probationary period" before deciding whether the grafting of grandes écoles-universities onto the Saclay had taken hold and created a single, globally recognized scientific entity. Since then, contradictions inherent in this project have appeared in the press and cast doubt on the will of the stakeholders to create a...