The Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (48°49′16"N 2°20′17"E), also known under its abbreviation of CIUP or often as Cité U among Parisiens, 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 for students and visiting academics in the Île-de-France

Île-de-France (région)

Île-de-France is the wealthiest and most populated of the twenty-two administrative regions of France, composed mostly of the Paris metropolitan area....

 region, and has been officially recognized as a foundation of public interest since then.

Several structures have been designed by architects of note, such as Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and painter, famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930...

, Willem Marinus Dudok

Willem Marinus Dudok

Willem Marinus Dudok , was a Dutch modernist architect, best known for the brick Hilversum City Hall....

, Heydar Ghiai

Heydar Ghiai

Heydar Gholi Khan Ghiaï-Chamlou who graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in 1952, was known as a pioneer of modern architecture in Iran.He designed the Senate House, the Royal Tehran Hilton Hotel, several train stations, cinemas, various civic and government buildings and the first series of...

 and Claude Parent. The residences are organized mostly by nationality, although residents in each maison are not necessarily from the country implied by the naming of the building. Students of 132 different nationalities were living in the Cité Internationale in 2006.

The CIUP is bounded to the south by the Boulevard Périphérique, a busy highway that circles the border of Paris, and to the North by the Parc Montsouris.

40 houses from around the world

	Houses	Inauguration	Picture
1	Fondation Rosa Abreu De Grancher (House of Cuba Cuba The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city... ), designed by Albert Laprade	1932
2	Residence André Honnorat	1953
3	Fondation Argentine Argentina Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...	1928
4	Maison des Étudiants Arméniens Armenia Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...	1930
5	Maison des Arts et Métiers École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers Arts et Métiers ParisTech is the French leading engineering school in the fields of mechanics and industrialization.The school trained 85,000 engineers since its foundation in 1780 by the Duke of La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt....	1949
6	Maison de l'Asie Asia Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...  du Sud-Est, designed by Pierre Martin and Maurice Vieu	1930
7	Fondation Avicenne, former Pavillon de l'Iran Iran Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia... , designed by Heydar Ghiai Heydar Ghiai Heydar Gholi Khan Ghiaï-Chamlou who graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in 1952, was known as a pioneer of modern architecture in Iran.He designed the Senate House, the Royal Tehran Hilton Hotel, several train stations, cinemas, various civic and government buildings and the first series of...  and Claude Parent	1969
8	Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre (étudiants belges Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...  et luxembourg Luxembourg Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south... eois), designed by Armand Guéritte	1924
9	Maison du Brésil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...  designed by Le Corbusier Le Corbusier Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and painter, famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930...  and Lucio Costa Lúcio Costa Lucio Costa was a Brazilian architect and urban planner.-Career:Costa was born in Toulon, France.Educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, England and in Montreux until 1916, he graduated as an architect in 1924 from the School of Fine Art in Rio de Janeiro... .	1954
10	Maison du Cambodge Cambodia Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia... , designed by Alfred Audoul	1957
11	Maison des Etudiants Canadiens Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... , designed by Olivier Le Bras	1925
12	Fondation Danoise Denmark Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark... , designed by Kaj Gottlob Kaj Gottlob Niels August Theodor Kaj Gottlob, usually known as Kaj Gottlob, was a Danish architect who contributed much to Neoclassicism and Functionalism both as professor of the School of Architects at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and as a royal building inspector.-Early life:After qualifying from...	1932
13	Fondation Emile et Louise Deutsch de la Meurthe, designed by Lucien Bechmann Lucien Bechmann Lucien Adolphe Bechmann is a French architect known for the Fondation Emile et Louise Deutsch de la Meurthe in the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris, the building Washington Plaza, Rue Washington in Paris and the Synagogue Chasseloup-Laubat in Paris.- Notes and References :... .	1925
14	Collège d'Espagne Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...	1927
15	Fondation des États-Unis, designed by Pierre Leprince-Ringuet	1930
16	Collège Franco France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... -Britannique United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... , designed by Pierre Martin and Maurice Vieu	1937
17	Residence André de Gouveia André de Gouveia André de Gouveia was a Portuguese humanist and pedagogue during the Renaissance.André de Gouveia became one of the first Portuguese to study in the Collège Sainte-Barbe, in Paris, which was then directed by his uncle Diogo de Gouveia...  (House of Portugal)	1960
18	Fondation Haraucourt Haraucourt Haraucourt may refer to the following communes in France:* Haraucourt, Ardennes, in the Ardennes department* Haraucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department* Haraucourt-sur-Seille, in the Moselle department...  (Island of Bréhat)	1939
19	Maison Heinrich Heine Heinrich Heine Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was one of the most significant German poets of the 19th century. He was also a journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder by composers such as Robert Schumann...  (House of Germany)	1956
20	Fondation Hellénique Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe.... , designed by Nicolas Zahos	1932
21	Maison de l'Inde India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...	1967
22	Maison des Industries Agricoles et Alimentaires	1954
23	Maison de l'Institut National Agronomique	1928
24	Maison de l'Italie Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and... , designed by Piero Portaluppi	1958
25	Maison du Japon Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... , designed by Pierre Sardou	1927
26	Maison du Liban Lebanon Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among... , designed by Jean Vernon and Bruno Philippe	1948
27	Residence Lila (19th arrondissement of Paris)	2005
28	Residence Lucien Paye Lucien Paye Lucien Paye was a former French politician.He was doctor of letters. He was Minister of National Education from 20 February 1961 to 15 April 1962 in the Government Michel Debré, then senior representative of France in Senegal in 1962. He was the first ambassador of France in China from 1964 to 1969... , designed by Albert Laprade	1949
29	Maison du Maroc Morocco Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...	1953
30	Maison du Mexique Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...	1953
31	Fondation de Monaco Monaco Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a sovereign city state on the French Riviera. It is bordered on three sides by its neighbour, France, and its centre is about from Italy. Its area is with a population of 35,986 as of 2011 and is the most densely populated country in the... , designed by Julien Médecin Julien Médecin Julien Médecin was a Monegasque architect. He won a bronze medal in Designs for Town Planning at the 1924 Olympics in Paris...	1937
32	Collège Néerlandais Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...  designed by Willem Marinus Dudok Willem Marinus Dudok Willem Marinus Dudok , was a Dutch modernist architect, best known for the brick Hilversum City Hall....	1926
33	Maison de Norvège Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million... , designed by Reidar Lund	1954
34	Maison des Provinces de France, designed by Armand Guéritte	1933
35	Residence Quai de la Loire (19th arrondissement of Paris)	2007
36	Residence Robert Garric	1936
37	Maison de la Suède Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund.... , designed by Peder Clason and Germain Debré	1931
38	Pavillon Suisse Pavillon Suisse The Pavillon Suisse or Swiss pavilion was built in 1932 at the Cité International Universitaire, Paris.The construction of this Pavilion was entrusted, without a competition, by the Committee of Swiss Universities to Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret who at first refused to be charged with this...  designed by Le Corbusier Le Corbusier Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and painter, famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930... .	1930
39	Maison de la Tunisie Tunisia Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area... , designed by Jean Sebag	1953
40	Fondation Victor Lyon	1950

A few former residents

• Brajesh Purohit (Maison de l'inde),
• Marcos Aguinis
  Marcos Aguinis
  Marcos Aguinis is an Argentine psychiatrist, writer and columnist.- Background :Marcos Aguinis was born in Córdoba, Argentina, in 1935 the son of a Romanian Jewish immigrant...
  
   (Fondation Argentine),
• Moira Verbelen (Fondation Biermans Lapôtre),
• Edward Cloet (Fondation Biermans Lapôtre),
• Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
  Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
  Joaquim Pedro de Andrade was a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He was a member of the Cinema Novo movement in Brazil. Andrade is best known for his 1969 film Macunaíma, based loosely on the novel of the same title by Mário de Andrade...
  
   (Maison du Brésil),
• Andreopoulos,
• Azorin (Collège d'Espagne),
• Miguel Angel,
• Fernando Arrabal
  Fernando Arrabal
  Fernando Arrabal Terán is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist and poet. He settled in France in 1955, he describes himself as “desterrado,” or “half-expatriate, half-exiled.”...
  
   (Collège d'Espagne),
• Pío Baroja
  Pío Baroja
  Pío Baroja y Nessi was a Spanish Basque writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98. He was a member of an illustrious family, his brother Ricardo was a painter, writer and engraver, and his nephew Julio Caro Baroja, son of his younger sister Carmen, was a well known...
  
   (Collège d'Espagne),
• Raymond Barre
  Raymond Barre
  Raymond Octave Joseph Barre was a French centre-right politician and economist. He was a Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs under three Presidents and later served as Prime Minister under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing from 1976 until 1981...
  
  ,
• Manuel Bartlett Díaz (Maison du Mexique),
• Tahar Ben Jelloun
  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  Tahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan poet and writer. The entirety of his work is written in French, although his first language is Arabic.-Life:...
  
   (Maison de Norvège),
• Malcolm Bilson
  Malcolm Bilson
  Malcolm Bilson is an American pianist specializing in performance on the fortepiano, which is the 18th century version of the piano. Bilson is the Frederick J...
  
   (Fondation des Etats-Unis),
• Karen Blixen
  Karen Blixen
  Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke , , née Karen Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen. She also wrote under the pen names Osceola and Pierre Andrézel...
  
   (Fondation Danoise),
• Habib Bourguiba
  Habib Bourguiba
  Habib Bourguiba was a Tunisian statesman, the Founder and the first President of the Republic of Tunisia from July 25, 1957 until 7 November 1987...
  
  ,
• Josep Puig i Cadafalch
  Josep Puig i Cadafalch
  Josep Puig i Cadafalch was a Spanish Catalan Modernista architect who designed many significant buildings in Barcelona...
  
   (Collège d'Espagne),
• Michel Camdessus
  Michel Camdessus
  Michel Camdessus is a French applied economist and administrator who was Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 16 January 1987 to 14 February 2000. To date, he is the longest serving Managing Director of the IMF....
  
  
• Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
  Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
  Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano is a prominent Mexican politician. He was a former Head of Government of the Federal District and a founder of the Party of the Democratic Revolution .-Biography:...
  
   (Maison du Mexique)
• Américo Castro
  Americo Castro
  Américo Castro y Quesada was a Spanish cultural historian, philologist, and literary critic who challenged some of the prevailing notions of Spanish identity, raising heated controversy with his conclusions that Spaniards didn't become the distinct group they are today until after the Islamic...
  
   (Collège d'Espagne)
• Luis Cernuda
  Luis Cernuda
  Luis Cernuda , was a Spanish poet and literary critic.-Life and career:...
  
   (Collège d'Espagne)
• Aimé Césaire
  Aimé Césaire
  Aimé Fernand David Césaire was a French poet, author and politician from Martinique. He was "one of the founders of the négritude movement in Francophone literature".-Student, educator, and poet:...
  
  
• Georges Charpak
  Georges Charpak
  Georges Charpak was a French physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992.-Life:Georges Charpak was born to Jewish family in the village of Dąbrowica in Poland . Charpak's family moved from Poland to Paris when he was seven years old...
  
  
• Inger Christensen
  Inger Christensen
  Inger Christensen was a Danish poet, novelist, essayist and editor considered the foremost Danish poetic experimentalist of her generation.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Adrienne Clarkson
  Adrienne Clarkson
  Adrienne Louise Clarkson is a Canadian journalist and stateswoman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 26th since Canadian Confederation....
  
   (Maison des étudiants canadiens)
• Julio Cortázar
  Julio Cortázar
  Julio Cortázar, born Jules Florencio Cortázar, was an Argentine writer. Cortázar, known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, influenced an entire generation of Spanish speaking readers and writers in the Americas and Europe.-Early life:Cortázar's parents, Julio José Cortázar and...
  
   (Fondation Argentine)
• Michèle Cotta
  Michèle Cotta
  -Biography:Her father was the Mayor of Nice. She started her career as a journalist for Combat. She move on to interviewing politicians for L'Express, under the tutelage of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Françoise Giroud...
  
  
• Jean-Louis Curtis
  Jean-Louis Curtis
  Jean-Louis Curtis , pseudonym of Louis Laffitte, was a French novelist best known for his second novel The Forests of the Night , which won France's highest literary award the Prix Goncourt in 1947. He has authored over 30 novels.Curtis was born in Orthez, Pyrénées-Atlantiques...
  
  
• Daniel D'Angela (Maison des étudiants canadiens)
• Fernando del Paso
  Fernando del Paso
  Fernando del Paso Morante is a Mexican novelist, essayist and poet.Del Paso was born in Mexico City and took two years in economics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México...
  
   (Maison du Mexique)
• Francisco Delich (Fondation Argentine)
• Georges Descrières
  Georges Descrières
  Georges Descrières is a French actor. He has appeared in 52 films and television shows between 1954 and 1996. He starred alongside Anna Karina in the 1962 film Sun in Your Eyes and portrayed the gentleman-burglar Arsène Lupin in an internationally successful TV series.-Selected filmography:* The...
  
  
• Abdou Diouf
  Abdou Diouf
  Abdou Diouf was the second President of Senegal, serving from 1981 to 2000. Diouf is notable both for coming to power by peaceful succession, and leaving willingly after losing the 2000 presidential election to Abdoulaye Wade...
  
   (Résidence Lucien Paye)
• Michael Edwards
  Michael Edwards
  Michael Edwards or Mike Edwards may refer to:*Michael Edwards , international development specialist*Michael Edwards , American actor*Michael Edwards , American composer and musician...
  
   (Collège franco-britannique)
• Jean-Pierre Elkabach
• Miguel Angel Estrella (Fondation Argentine)
• Manuel Felguérez
  Manuel Felguérez
  Manuel Felguérez Aspe is a Mexican abstract artist.-Biography:Felguérez was born at the Hacienda de San Agustin del Vergel, in the town of Valparaíso, Zacatecas. At the time, in the wake of the Mexican Revolution, there were still uprisings by small guerrillas and land ownership was nothing less...
  
   (Maison du Mexique)
• Fernando Garcia Ponce (Maison du Mexique)
• Bruno Leonardo Gelber (Fondation Argentine)
• Margo Glantz
  Margo Glantz
  Margo Glantz is a Mexican writer, essayist, critic and academic.- Biography :Margo Glantz's family immigrated to Mexico from Ukraine in the 1920s. Her father, Jacobo Glantz, met her mother, Elizabeth Shapiro in Odessa, where they married...
  
   (Maison du Mexique)
• Claude Guéant
  Claude Guéant
  Claude Guéant is a French civil servant. The former Chief of Staff to Nicolas Sarkozy, he has been Minister of the Interior since 27 February 2011. He is a member of the conservative Union for a Popular Movement .-Biography:...
  
   (Maison de l'Inde)
• Paul Guth
  Paul Guth
  Paul Guth was a French humorist, journalist and writer, and the President of the Académie des provinces françaises....
  
  
• Wilfrid-Guy Licari (Maison des Etudiants Canadiens)
• Michel Jobert
  Michel Jobert
  Michel Jobert was a French politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under Georges Pompidou, and as Minister of External Commerce under François Mitterrand....
  
  
• Archimandrite Komitas (Maison des Etudiants Arméniens)
• Roméo LeBlanc
  Roméo LeBlanc
  Roméo-Adrien LeBlanc was a Canadian journalist, politician, and statesman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 25th since Canadian Confederation....
  
   (Maison des Etudiants Canadiens)
• Jules Léger
  Jules Léger
  Jules Léger was a Canadian diplomat and statesman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 21st since Canadian Confederation....
  
   (Maison des Etudiants Canadiens)
• Jaime Lerner
  Jaime Lerner
  Jaime Lerner was governor of the state of Paraná, in southern Brazil. He is renowned as an architect and urban planner, having been mayor of Curitiba, capital of Paraná, three times...
  
   (Maison du Brésil)
• Henri Lopes
  Henri Lopès
  Henri Lopès is a Congolese writer, diplomat, and political figure. He was Prime Minister of Congo-Brazzaville from 1973 to 1975, and since 1998 he has been Congo-Brazzaville's Ambassador to France.-Political and diplomatic career:...
  
   (Résidence Lucien Paye)
• Franck Louvrier (Maison des Etudiants de l'Asie du Sud-Est)
• Neil MacGregor
  Neil MacGregor
  Robert Neil MacGregor, OM, FSA is an art historian and museum director. He was the Editor of the Burlington Magazine from 1981 to 1987, the Director of the National Gallery, London, from 1987 to 2002, and was appointed Director of the British Museum in 2002...
  
   (Collège Franco-Britannique)
• Louis Mermaz
  Louis Mermaz
  Louis Mermaz is a French politician. He became an ally of François Mitterrand in the late 1950s and in 1971 became a member of Mitterrand's staff in the French Socialist Party. From 1981 to 1986, he was president of the French National Assembly. He served as Minister of Agriculture from 1990 to...
  
  
• Pedro Mesquita (Résidence André de Gouveia)
• Patrick Modiano
  Patrick Modiano
  Patrick Modiano is a French novelist born 30 July 1945 in Boulogne-Billancourt of a father of Jewish Italian origins and a Belgian mother, Louisa Colpijn . He is a winner of the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1972, the Prix Goncourt in 1978 for his novel Rue des boutiques obscures...
  
  
• Henri de Montpezat
• Arthur Moreira Lima (Maison du Brésil)
• Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
  Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
  Porfirio Alejandro Muñoz Ledo y Lazo de la Vega is a Mexican politician. He is one of the founders of the Party of the Democratic Revolution ....
  
   (Maison du Mexique)
• Paul Nizan
  Paul Nizan
  Paul Nizan was a French philosopher and writer.-Biography:He was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire and studied in Paris where he befriended fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre at the Lycée Henri IV...
  
  
• Hagop Ochagan (Maison des Etudiants Arméniens)
• Severo Ochoa
  Severo Ochoa
  Severo Ochoa de Albornoz was a Spanish-American doctor and biochemist, and joint winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Arthur Kornberg.-Early life:...
  
   (Collège d'Espagne)
• Akram Ojjeh
  Akram Ojjeh
  Akram Ojjeh was a Syrian born Saudi businessman. Ojjeh founded Techniques d'Avant Garde, an investment company focused on advanced technologies. Ojjeh was an intermediary in deals between Saudi Arabia and France, particularly arms sales. Ojjeh brokered the sale of tanks, aircraft, Thomson...
  
  
• Farah Diba Pahlavi
  Farah Pahlavi
  Farah Pahlavi is the former Queen and Empress of Iran. She is the widow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, and only Empress of modern Iran...
  
   (Collège Néerlandais)
• Rajendra Prasad
  Rajendra Prasad
  Dr. Rajendra Prasad was an Indian politician and educator. He was one of the architects of the Indian Republic, having drafted its first constitution and serving as the first president of independent India...
  
   (Maison de l'Inde)
• Francisco Rezek
  Francisco Rezek
  José Francisco Rezek is a Brazilian judge who served as a member of the International Court of Justice, based in The Hague, Netherlands, from 1996 to 2006. His surname "Rezek" comes from Czech Republic....
  
   (Maison du Brésil)
• Sebastião Salgado
  Sebastião Salgado
  Sebastião Salgado is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.-Biography:Salgado was born on February 8, 1944 in Aimorés, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. After a somewhat itinerant childhood, Salgado initially trained as an economist, earning a master’s degree in...
  
   (Maison du Brésil)
• Jacques Santer (Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre)
• Jean-Paul Sartre
  Jean-Paul Sartre
  Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, particularly Marxism, and was one of the key figures in literary...
  
  
• Léopold Sédar Senghor
  Léopold Sédar Senghor
  Léopold Sédar Senghor was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal . Senghor was the first African elected as a member of the Académie française. Before independence, he founded the political party called the Senegalese...
  
   (Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe)
• MKL Sharma (Maison de l'Inde)
• Antoni Tàpies
  Antoni Tàpies
  Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tàpies is a Catalan painter. He is one of the most famous European artists of his generation. After studying law for 3 years, he devoted himself from 1943 onwards only to his painting...
  
   (Collège d'Espagne)
• Serge Tchuruk
  Serge Tchuruk
  Serge Tchurukdichian , known as Serge Tchuruk, is a French businessman of Armenian descent. He was the Chief Executive Officer and chairman of Alcatel until the end of November 2006 and was the chairman of Alcatel-Lucent until his resignation in October 2008.Serge Tchuruk was graduate of the Ecole...
  
   (Maison des Etudiants Arméniens)
• Francisco Toledo
  Francisco Toledo
  Francisco Benjamín López Toledo is a Mexican graphic artist. He studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Oaxaca and the Centro Superior de Artes Aplicadas del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico, where he studied graphic arts with Guillermo Silva Santamaria...
  
   (Maison du Mexique)
• Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Maison des Etudiants Canadiens)
• Paloma Ulacia (Maison du Mexique)
• Zuenir Ventura
  Zuenir Ventura
  Zuenir Carlos Ventura is a Brazilian journalist and writer. He is a columnist for the newspaper O Globo, and for Época magazine. He won the Jabuti Prize in 1995 in the "reportage" category for the book Cidade Partida. In 2009, his book 1968 - O que Fizemos de Nós won the third place at the same...
  
   (Maison du Brésil)
• Luc Vinet
  Luc Vinet
  Luc Vinet is a Canadian physicist and former rector of the Université de Montréal.-Biography:Born in Montreal, Vinet holds a doctorate from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie and a PhD from the Université de Montréal, both in theoretical physics...
  
   (Maison des Etudiants Canadiens)
• Mulayam Singh Yadav
  Mulayam Singh Yadav
  Mulayam Singh Yadav in Hindi मुलायम सिंह यादव is an Indian politician and has influence mainly in Uttar Pradesh state of India...
  
   (Maison de l'Inde)
• Arun Peter Malat(Maison de l'Inde)
• Zaven Yegavian (Maison des Etudiants Arméniens)
• Narciso Yepes
  Narciso Yepes
  Narciso Yepes was a Spanish guitarist.-Biography:Yepes was born into a family of humble origin in Lorca, Region of Murcia. His father gave him his first guitar when he was four years old. He took his first lessons from Jesus Guevara, in Lorca...
  
   (Collège d'Espagne)
• Norvan Zakarian (Maison des Etudiants Arméniens)
• Javier Zubiri (Collège d'Espagne)
• Sierra Ryan (Maison aux Etats Unis)

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• Maison de l'Inde