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The flag of the Organisation internationale de la francophonie. The Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie (literally "Prize of the five continents of the francophonie") is a literary prize created in 2001 by the Organisation internationale de la francophonie.
Due to the precarious lease on the building in rue de Sèvres, the construction of a new building was decided upon. Jean Verdier, archbishop of Paris inaugurated the new school on 20 December 1934. The ENC also built an annexe on rue Olivier-de-Serres in 1939: the école Saint-Jean was born. [1]
Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (French pronunciation: [ɛ̃stity nɑsjɔnal de lɑ̃ɡ e sivilizɑsjɔ̃ ɔʁjɑ̃tal]; transl. "National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations"), [1] abbreviated as INALCO, is a French Grand Etablissement with a specializing in the teaching of languages and cultures from ...
The Institut Culturel Franco-Japonais – École Japonaise de Paris ("French-Japanese Cultural Institute - Japanese School of Paris" - Japanese: 日仏文化学院パリ日本人学校 Nichifutsu Bunka Gakuin Pari Nihonjin Gakkō) is a Japanese international school located in Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France, in the Paris Metropolitan Area. [1]
Rue de la Montagne Sainte Geneviève. The Montagne Sainte-Geneviève (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃taɲ sɛ̃t ʒənvjɛv]) is a hill overlooking the left bank of the Seine in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was known to the ancient Romans as Mons Lucotitius. [1] Atop the Montagne are the Panthéon and the Bibliothèque Sainte ...
Saint-Jean de Passy (known as "le Pensionnat de Passy" [1] between 1905 and 1911, and "le Pensionnat diocésain de Passy" between 1911 and its second change of name in the 1930s) is a private Catholic school located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. It enrolls students from the first to the twelfth grades, as well as a small number of ...
The Collège of Bernardins, or Collège Saint-Bernard, located no 20, rue de Poissy in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, is a former Cistercian college of the University of Paris. Founded by Stephen of Lexington , abbot of Clairvaux, and built from 1248 with the encouragement of Pope Innocent IV , it served until the French Revolution as the ...
The chapel of St. Louis, in 1582, was replaced by the present church in 1627. King Louis XIII laid the first stone, and it was known as the Saint-Louis des Jesuits. The church was designed by two Jesuit architects, Étienne Martellange and François Derand. The first mass was celebrated on 9 May 1641 by Cardinal Richelieu, benefactor of the ...