The EHESS (École des hautes études en sciences sociales) emerged from the sixth section of the EPHE (École pratique des hautes études) created under the leadership of Lucien Fébvre in 1947, inheriting from it three decades of reflection and debate towards the establishing of the social sciences as an epistemological domain in its own right and as a forum for interdisciplinary exchange in view of a common object: man in society. Under the aegis of Jacques Le Goff, president of the sixth section of the EPHE from 1972, the EHESS officially came into existence as an autonomous institution on the 25th of January 1975. Located initially at 54 Boulevard Raspail, Paris, in the same building as the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme founded by Fernand Braudel, it became the locus for the creation of a network of world-class research centres whose members have included renowned historians, sociologists, anthropologists and philosophers such as François Furet, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Bourdieu, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Derrida.