School of the executives of Uriage
After the defeat of 1940, the Régime of Vichy decides to reform the formation of the elites by creating an about sixty schools of frameworks - with of which the school of the executives of Uriage - charged with forming the future elites of the “national Révolution”. The school organizes training courses of physical, intellectual and moral drive for the future chiefs of youth.
The direction is entrusted by it to the captain Pierre Dunoyer de Segonzac who profits from a great independence, it makes come in Uriage independent intellectuals such as Hubert Beuve-Méry, future founder of the newspaper Le Monde, Joffre Dumazedier or Benigno Cacérès.
The school quickly becomes a place of freedom of reflection and debates, dissociating from the policy of Collaboration mode until becoming a intellectual fish pond of the Résistance of with dimensions of which it spends in September 1942. Located at Saint-Martin-with Uriage close to the Maquis of Vercors, the bonds with the groups of resistant are numerous.
Dissolved in December 1942 on decision of Pierre Laval, it is then replaced in the same castle by the school of the executives of the Milice.
The experiment of Uriage is regarded as the prefiguration of future the National school of administration.
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