Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CiuP, Cité U) is a private park and foundation located in Paris, France. Since 1925, it has provided general and public services, including the maintenance of several dozen residences housing around 6,000 students and visiting academics in the Île-de-France region. Officially recognized as a foundation of public interest, the CIUP promotes exchanges between students from around the world in a spirit of tolerance.[1]
History
The CIUP was established after World War I by André Honnorat, rector at the Sorbonne, in cooperation with Émile Deutsch de la Meurthe, in order to create a meeting place for students, researchers and intellectuals from around the world in a spirit of peace, unity and friendly cooperation. The CIUP was originally built for the University of Paris, hence its name appears in several of its buildings, notably the Maison Internationale.
Several CIUP structures have been designed by architects of note, such as Le Corbusier, Willem Marinus Dudok, Heydar Ghiai and Claude Parent. The residences are organized mostly by nationality, although residents in each maison are not necessarily from the countries implied by building names. Up to 30%-50% of the student residents in each residence may come from different nationalities. In 2006, students of 132 different nationalities lived in the Cité Internationale. In the early 21st century, the CIUP acquired two residences outside its original perimeter, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris.[2]
^(in French) Maison des Industries Agricoles et Alimentaires (MIAA) website Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
^(in French) Le Collège néerlandais de Willem Marinus DUDOK Archived 2008-12-05 at the Wayback Machine - Paris Dutch embassy
Bibliography
Dzovinar Kévonian et Guillaume Tronchet (ed.), La Babel étudiante. La Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (1920-1950), Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2013 . (online)
Dzovinar Kévonian et Guillaume Tronchet (dir.), Le Campus-monde. La Cité internationale universitaire de Paris, de 1945 aux années 2000), Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2022, 336 p. (online)
Guillaume Tronchet, André Honnorat. Un visionnaire en politique, Hémisphères éditions, 2020, 448 p.
Guillaume Tronchet, "Diplomatie universitaire ou diplomatie culturelle? La Cité internationale universitaire de Paris entre deux rives (1920-1940)", dans Dzovinar Kévonian et Guillaume Tronchet (dir.), La Babel étudiante. La Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (1920-1950), Rennes, PUR, 2013, p. 59-88 (online)
Guillaume Tronchet, « La Cité universitaire : une joint-venture transnationale dans le Paris des années 1920 et 1930 », in Serge Jaumain et Pierre Van den Dungen (dir), Biermans-Lapôtre. Histoire d’un mécène et de sa fondation, Bruxelles, Lannoo/Racine Editions, 2013, p. 85-100.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cité internationale universitaire de Paris.
Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris – official website (in French, English, and Spanish)
Homepages for each house
Indian house
Swedish house
House of the Canadian Students (Maison des étudiants canadiens)
Fondation des États-Unis Archived 2019-09-02 at the Wayback Machine
