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Buell Hall (originally called Macy Villa and part of the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum) being moved from its original location on 116th Street to current location, September 19, 1905
Centennial Highlights
- Moving Macy Villa (Buell Hall), 1905
- Champlain Mission with Carnegie, 1912
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Andrew Carnegie (center) greets the "Mission Champlain" delegation sent by the Comité France-Amérique to the U.S. and Canada in 1912, which led to the creation of the France-America Society and Maison Française
- Charles Boyer with students, 1948
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Charles Boyer surrounded by students at the Maison Française (including, at lower left, Bettina Knapp), December 10, 1948
- Jean-Paul Sartre Opens Exhibit, 1945
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Jean-Paul Sartre speaks at the opening of the Maison Française exhibit on the French Resistance and Liberation, April 16, 1945. Journalist Andrée Viollis sits to Sartre’s right.
- WWI Columbia Alumni ambulance, 1915
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Volunteer driver relaxing in a WWI ambulance (donated by “Alumni of Columbia”), Coxyde, Belgium, June 1915
- André Malraux speech, 1937
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André Malraux, author and future French Minister of Cultural Affairs, speaks in French about the Spanish Civil War in McMillin Theatre (now Miller Theatre), March 20, 1937
- Marshal Foch at Columbia, 1921
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Marshal Ferdinand Foch is greeted by crowds in New York City and at Columbia, where he receives an honorary doctorate, November 19, 1921
- Justin O'Brien and students, 1962
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Professor Justin O'Brien and French Department students are interviewed for a French TV documentary entitled A New York: êtres de jour, Varèse, April 19, 1962
- Eugene Sheffer on Édith Piaf in 1947
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Maison Française Director Eugene Sheffer reminisces about tutoring Edith Piaf in English on her first trip to the U.S. in 1947, May 27, 1969
- Claude Lanzmann on Charlie Rose, 2012
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The Maison Française hosts Charlie Rose’s interview of Claude Lanzmann at Columbia, March 20, 2012; interview aired on the Charlie Rose Show on PBS, June 6, 2012
- Cambodian art exhibition, 2013
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Cambodia, The Memory Workshop art exhibition at the Maison Française and Italian Academy, April-May 2013, highlights three generations of Cambodian artists
- Paul LeClerc and Bruno Racine, 2011
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NYPL President Emeritus Paul LeClerc converses with BnF President Bruno Racine about the future of libraries in an event co-presented with the NYPL, April 29, 2011
- President Sarkozy in Low Library, 2010
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French President Nicholas Sarkozy gives a keynote lecture on Franco-American cooperation in Low Library in an event co-presented with the World Leaders Forum, March 29, 2010
- Why French Matters, 2011
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Columbia Professor of French and Philosophy Souleymane Bachir Diagne and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik share their insights in a roundtable about "Why French Matters," April 13, 2011
- Maryse Condé on writing, 2013
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Columbia Professor Emerita and acclaimed writer Maryse Condé explains why she decided to write her autobiography, La Vie sans fards (2012), February 6, 2013
- Marcel Marceau interview, 1958
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French mime Marcel Marceau is interviewed by Maison Française Director Eugene Sheffer, February 3, 1958; interview aired on French-language program on WKCR radio in 1960
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