La chapelle du Gros-Caillou est un lieu de culte protestant désaffecté situé au 19 rue Amélie, dans le 7e arrondissement de Paris.
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Saint-Pierre-du-Gros-Caillou is a Roman Catholic parish church located at 52 Rue Dominique in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, completed in 1733. It takes its name from a large boulder, or Caillou, which marked the limit between the parishes of the abbeys of Saint-Germain des Prés and Sainte-Genevièce.
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The American University of Paris is a private university in Paris, France. Founded in 1962, the university is one of the oldest American institutions of higher education in Europe, and the first to be established in France. The university campus consists of seven buildings, centrally located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, on the Left Bank near the Eiffel Tower, Les Invalides, and the Seine.
The university's language of instruction is English, although students must prove a level of proficiency in French prior to graduation. The university has over 1,200 students, representing over 100 nationalities, with an average student-to-faculty ratio of ten to one. The university's faculty members represent 30 nationalities, with 71% holding doctoral degrees and close to 70% speaking three or more languages.
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The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie is an international organization representing states and governments with a notable affiliation with French language and culture.
The organization comprises 93 member states and governments; of these, 56 states and governments are full members, 5 are associate members and 32 are observers. The term francophonie, or francosphere, also refers to the global community of French-speaking peoples, constitutes a network of private and public organizations promoting equal ties among countries where the French language or culture plays a significant historical role, culturally, militarily, or politically.
The organization was created in 1970. Most of its founding members and current full members were part of the French colonial empire. Its headquarters is located on Avenue Bosquet in Paris, France. Its motto is égalité, complémentarité, solidarité, a deliberate allusion to France's motto liberté, égalité, fraternité. Starting as a small group of French-speaking countries, the Francophonie has since evolved into a global organization whose numerous branches cooperate with its member states in the fields of culture, science, economy, justice, and peace. Its mission is to promote the French language and cultural and linguistic diversity, promote peace, democracy, and human rights, and support education, research, and cooperative development. It is an observer of the United Nations.
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Magic-City was an amusement park near Pont de l'Alma, two blocks east of the Eiffel Tower, in Paris from 1900 to 1934.
A large dance hall at 188 rue de l'Université in Paris was located in Magic-City. The venue was known for its "drag balls".
The emblematic event of homosexual life in Paris in the inter-war years was a series of masked balls held annually during Carnival on Mardi Gras and Mi-Carême at Magic-City Dancing, an immense dance-hall on the Rue de l'Universite, near the Eiffel Tower. ... Between 1922 and 1939, thousands of men, most costumed and many in extravagant female drag, attended the balls at Magic-City every year. 'On this night,' wrote a journalist in 1931, 'all of Sodom's grandsons scattered throughout the world...seem to have rebuilt their accursed city for an evening. The presence of so many of their kind makes them forget their abnormality.'
Brassaï, who photographed the events, wrote of an "immense, warm, impulsive fraternity" at Magic-City, saying "The cream of Parisian inverts was to meet there, without distinction as to class, race or age. And every type came, faggots, cruisers, chickens, old queens, famous antique dealers and young butcher boys, hairdressers and elevator boys, well-known dress designers and drag queens..."
Magic-City was closed by the authorities on February 6, 1934, and in 1942 the building was bought by the government and turned over to Paris-Télévision, which began broadcasting there in 1943.
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The Istituto Statale Italiano Leonardo Da Vinci is an Italian government-owned Italian international school in Paris, France. Its scuola media and liceo scientifico, along with the school administration, occupies one campus in the 7th arrondissement. The elementary school is housed in a different campus in the same arrondissement.
The Lycée français Chateaubriand, the French school of Rome, is considered to be its sister school. This was established by the Convention Culturelle italo francese of 4 November 1949.