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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
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
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 surrounded by students at the Maison Française (including, at lower left, Bettina Knapp), December 10, 1948
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.
Volunteer driver relaxing in a WWI ambulance (donated by “Alumni of Columbia”), Coxyde, Belgium, June 1915
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 Ferdinand Foch is greeted by crowds in New York City and at Columbia, where he receives an honorary doctorate, November 19, 1921
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
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
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
Cambodia, The Memory Workshop art exhibition at the Maison Française and Italian Academy, April-May 2013, highlights three generations of Cambodian artists
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
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
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
Columbia Professor Emerita and acclaimed writer Maryse Condé explains why she decided to write her autobiography, La Vie sans fards (2012), February 6, 2013
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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