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Gallery : The France-America Society
Gallery : The France-America Society
Gallery : The France-America Society

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

 

Gallery : Origins (144)
Gallery : Origins (144)
Gallery : Origins

A. Barton Hepburn, donor of the townhouse that became the first home of the Maison Française

Gallery : Nicholas Murray Butler
Gallery : Nicholas Murray Butler
Gallery : Nicholas Murray Butler

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

 World War I
World War I
Gallery : World War I

Columbia Radio Officers at Work, Circa 1918 

World War II
World War II
Gallery : World War II

Jean-Paul Sartre speaking at the opening of the Maison Française exhibit on the French Resistance and Liberation, April 16, 1945.

French Visitors
French Visitors
Gallery : French Visitors

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, Eugene Sheffer and Les Compagnons de la Chanson, November 16, 1947
Edith Piaf, Eugene Sheffer and Les Compagnons de la Chanson, November 16, 1947
Gallery : Director Eugene J. Sheffer

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
French undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau surrounded by students after a talk, September 25, 1978
Gallery : Activities

French undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau surrounded by students after a talk, September 25, 1978