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Councillor of State."},{"q":"Where did Alain Seban study?","a":"Alain Seban was educated at École polytechnique, École nationale d'administration, Paris Institute of Political Studies, ENSAE Paris."}],"related":[{"name":"Hosni Mubarak","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hosni-mubarak"},{"name":"Gamal Abdel Nasser","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gamal-abdel-nasser"},{"name":"Mohamed Morsi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohamed-morsi"},{"name":"Mohamed Naguib","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohamed-naguib"},{"name":"Abdul Rahman Arif","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abdul-rahman-arif"},{"name":"Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/muhammad-najib-ar-ruba-i"},{"name":"Michel Chevalier","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/michel-chevalier"},{"name":"André Damien","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/andre-damien"},{"name":"Érik Orsenna","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/erik-orsenna"},{"name":"Paul Boudet","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/paul-boudet"},{"name":"Antoine François Passy","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/antoine-francois-passy"},{"name":"Gabriel de Broglie","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gabriel-de-broglie"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/alain-seban-2e9fedd514.jpg","width":500,"height":334,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","credit":"Thesupermat","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_France_-_Rue_de_Cl%C3%A9ry_-_Inauguration_-_012.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Alain Seban","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Seban","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q2830278","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2830278","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Wikimedia France - Rue de Cléry - Inauguration - 012.jpg by Thesupermat (CC BY-SA 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_France_-_Rue_de_Cl%C3%A9ry_-_Inauguration_-_012.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Alain Seban, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Wikimedia France - Rue de Cléry - Inauguration - 012.jpg — Thesupermat, CC BY-SA 3.0.","cite":"\"Alain Seban\". DigiNepal. Last updated 6 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/alain-seban. Retrieved 6 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-06T06:42:42Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-06","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/alain-seban","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/alain-seban","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/alain-seban?lang=ne"}}