Featured / Head of School

Facing History and Ourselves

“Why study history?” is a question students ask, not because they lack passion for the subject, but because they seem to be naturally more focused on the present than on the past. The answers I myself would give are myriad, ranging from the importance of building collective memory to that

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Featured / Head of School

Qu’est-ce que le bonheur?

Most often, I think back on growing up in Vienna as an extraordinarily happy period. For three years, between the ages of six and nine, my three siblings and I had the pleasure of playing for hours in the gardens around Schönbrunn Palace, taking the tramway, going to the opera, among

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Featured / Week in Pictures

Week in Pictures March 3 to 9

Vendredi: C’est déjà le spectacle de fin d’année des CM2! (Crédits : E. Loewe) Jeudi: Deux élèves de CE1 présentent un exposé sur l’artiste-peintre impressionniste Mary Cassatt, que la classe a étudiée en arts plastiques. Mercredi: Un élève de 6ème fait ses devoirs dans la salle d’informatique du CDI. Aujourd’hui

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Featured / Head of School

Percival’s Question

Two thoughts kept coming to mind this past Thursday evening, as I listened to the remarkable discussion on social entrepreneurship taking place in the Lycée Français de New York Cultural Center. The first was one of gratitude to Pascale Richard for organizing such a brilliant event, which from the large

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