At the end of the second year of the Grande École Program, students from each campus can participate in the Mayoux-Dauriac Prize. With one prize per Arts et Métiers campus, it recognizes the student who, in both written and oral work, and in terms of both form and content, uses the French language with the greatest eloquence, finesse, and meaning.
A look back at the 2022 edition.
AN AWARD TO RECOGNIZE MASTERY OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE
Created in accordance with the will of Maurice Mayoux, an Arts et Métiers engineer (Cluny class of 1920) and his wife Jeanne Dauriac, the Mayoux Prize rewards mastery of the French language.
This €1,000 prize is intended for students in the Grande École Program in their second year at each of the eight Arts et Métiers campuses and is organized by the delegates of the SOCE delegates on the campuses.
This year, each candidate was required to write a 5- to 10-page essay on the theme "Tomorrow's truth is nourished by yesterday's mistakes," a quote from Antoine de St Exupéry. The format was open (essay, short story, poetry, etc.).
The 2022 winners
Châlons-en-Champagne:
The Mayoux-Dauriac Prize award ceremony took place on Monday, May 30, in the Winter Garden on campus.
Congratulations to Noam Mati, a sophomore in the Grande Ecole Engineering Programme, who won this year’s competition.
He received a check for €1,000 as a reward.
Congratulations also to the other participants: Justine Cros, Victoire Libaud, Renan Mukerjee, and Camille Olders, general engineers .
Aix-en-Provence:
Congratulations to Gabriel Graffagninio: "I am very happy to have won this competition. It motivates me to keep giving my all. I decided to enter not to win, but to submit my writing to criticism for the first time, and I have absolutely no regrets. I had a very enriching experience, receiving feedback from a neutral audience, and my nomination only adds to that experience!"
It was thanks to writing a seven-page short story that he won the €1,000 Mayoux Prize.
Lille:
The winners of the 2022 Mayoux-Duariac Prize in Lille are Pierre DOISY and Lucas OHMER! They each win a check for €500!
Angers:
The jury for the Mayoux-Dauriac Prize at the Angers campus has chosen Alessandro Giannelli as the 2022 winner, thanks to his short story "Les mémoires" (Memoirs).
Metz:
The winner from the Metz campus is Théodore Gerbier! Congratulations to him and to all the participants: Alexandre Varieras, François Lamming, Nathan Gautheron, and Arnaud Elkaim.
Cluny:
The winner from the Cluny campus is TISSEUIL HUGO, a student from the PSI program at the Lycée Aux Lazaristes in Lyon.
It was thanks to a play he directed that he was able to win the 2022 prize.
Candidates also had the opportunity to participate in a writing workshop offered by Le jardin secret.
Paris:
On the Paris campus, Agathe Lelarge (Li220) is the winner of the Mayoux-Dauriac Prize for her poem "Le Jardin des Sens" (The Garden of the Senses).
"This poem may not be the most beautiful, but it is the one that means the most to me. It is a free-form poem written "as it came to me," hence the lack of any particular structure. The poem is based on a description of a garden by a friend who wanted to imagine a garden on the theme of the Muses and the senses, with several different atmospheres."
Bordeaux:
Congratulations to Tristan Alexandre, winner of the Mayoux Prize in Bordeaux.
