École libre des hautes études

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The École Libre des Hautes Études (lit. ‘Free School for Advanced Studies’) was a "university-in-exile" for French academics in New York during the Second World War. It was chartered by the French (the Free French) and Belgian governments-in-exile and located at the New School for Social Research. Its founders included Jean Wahl, Jacques Maritain, and Gustave Cohen, and it was supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.[1]

The philosopher Jacques Maritain, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, historian , and linguist Roman Jakobson all taught at the École Libre.

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  1. ^ Chaubet, F.; Loyer, E. (2000). "The Ecole-Libre-des-Hautes-Etudes in New York: exile and intellectual resistance (1942-1946)". Revue historique: 939–972.

Coordinates: 40°44′08″N 73°59′49″W / 40.73549°N 73.99695°W / 40.73549; -73.99695



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