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The École nationale de la France d'outre-mer was a French grande école, providing training for future colonial administrators. It was situated in Paris, avenue de l'Observatoire, 2.Created under the name École coloniale in 1889, it succeeded the École cambodgienne - established in 1885 - and took the ENFOM name in 1934 . On 23 June 1956, it was subject to the French Fourth Republic's "Africanization" of colonial administration policy: the number of its African and Malagasy students equaled that of Metropolitan France ones.In 1959, it became the Institut des hautes études d'Outre-Mer, and offered training to administrators of African countries that were members of the French Community ; in 1966, IHEOM was replaced by the Institut international d’administration publique that formed future leaders from Third World countries and which ultimately fused into the École nationale d'administration in 2002.
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