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French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu falsely claimed a master's degree (www.newsminimalist.com)
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Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu is revealed to have falsely claimed a master's degree in public law.

Mediapart reported that Lecornu's official biography was altered to reflect "studies in law" instead of a claimed master's, which he never obtained.

Matignon initially denied changes to the biography and later admitted he held a Master 1, a degree level no longer in existence.

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

According to other sources he only did one year and then dropped out. Not sure what a "Masters 1" is.

[–] mat@jlai.lu 2 points 1 month ago

Usually after the back, you go to university, study three years L1, L2, L3 to get a License (otherwise you have education credits) and then 2 years (M1, M2) to get a Master, same note for the credits. If you dropped out after M1, you don't have a master and it seems to be illegal according to another post on the French Fediverse.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hmm, reporting isn't what it used to be. The French would have probably caught on immediately. If this Stack Exchange is correct, it's definitely a story.

https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/106647/m1-vs-m2-in-france-in-the-french-system-which-one-is-designed-for-those-intere#106649

My apologies, my friend.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fun fact I came across this on other media and was barely able to find any info on Google about it. I had to open Duck (Bing) which suddenly showed many results. So there is definitely some search engine surpression going on.

But it says the French government website retracted his degree so the story seems to check out.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 1 month ago

Well I used ddg for my query so Stack was the first, best, and most clear answer. Which is surprising for obvious reasons.