Cité internationale universitaire de Paris

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.

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.

Alongside two stadiums on campus, the CIUP has direct access to the Stade Sébastien Charléty, a 20.000 seats stadium which is the house of Paris Université Club, the sport club of the Université de Paris, which is located across the street.

Location

Located in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, the CIUP is bounded to the south by the Boulevard Périphérique, the busy ring road encircling Paris, and to the north (in part) by the 38-acre Parc Montsouris.

Residences

Former residents

See also

• Marcel Gaumont Sculptor of relief on university entrance

References

Notes

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

• 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
• Fondation Suisse
• Brazil house
• Maison de la Tunisie
• Maison du Liban
• Mexican house
• Japanese house
• Fondation de l'Allemagne — Maison Heinrich Heine
• Spanish house