HISTORICAL FOOTAGE
U.S. Senator and former Secretary of State Elihu Root, a director of the France-America Society, reviewing the Student Army Training Corps at Columbia, October 1, 1918
A. Barton Hepburn, donor of the townhouse that became the first home of the Maison Française
Butler lays the cornerstone at the new library in Reims, France, July 19, 1921. On Butler's initiative, funding for the reconstruction was provided by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Columbia Radio Officers at Work, Circa 1918
Jean-Paul Sartre speaking at the opening of the Maison Française exhibit on the French Resistance and Liberation, April 16, 1945.
Visiting professors at the 1924 Summer Session at Columbia. Bernard Fäy (back right) also participated in the first of these sessions in 1923. Also pictured (left to right): Paul Porteau, Joao da Providencia S. Costa and Dr. Arthur Livingston
Edith Piaf with Eugene Sheffer and Les Compagnons de la Chanson at the Maison Française, November 16, 1947, on Piaf's first trip to the U.S. for her American debut
French undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau surrounded by students after a talk, September 25, 1978
Robert O. Paxton, February 20, 1978