Cours de Civilisation Française de la Sorbonne
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Cours de Civilisation Française de la Sorbonne
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214 boulevard Raspail, 75014 Paris France |
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| Coordinates | 48°50′27″N 2°19′47″E / 48.840868°N 2.329763°E |
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| Type | Private school |
| Established | 1919 |
| President | Recteur Jean-Louis Boursin |
| Director | Pierre Brunel |
| Number of students | 7000 |
| Website | ccfs-sorbonne |
The Cours de Civilisation Française de la Sorbonne (CCFS - the Sorbonne French language and civilisation courses) depends on the Foundation Robert de Sorbon, a public utility foundation of private status regulated by the French Law of 4 July 1990 on the foundations. The purpose of this organization is to uphold the French culture around the world by teaching French civilization and French language as a foreign language. Created in 1919, The CCFS is a French foreign language school, or français langue étrangère (FLE).
Primarily attended by Americans, the CCFS regroups today nearly 130 nationalities with a prominent presence of Germans, Americans, Britons, Brazilians, Chinese, Swedes, Koreans, Spaniards, Japanese, Poles and Russians. About seven thousand students attend the institution each year.
According to its statutes, the CCFS is directed by a professor, an emeritus professor or a University lecturer. The current director of the courses is Mr. Pierre Brunel, Professor of comparative literature at the Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV), member of the Institut Universitaire de France and the Deputy-Director is Mr. Jean-Louis de Boissieu, lecturer in the same University.
The foundation Robert de Sorbon has a Supervisory Board, on which sit the Ministers of the Interior and Foreign Affairs, and the Rector of the Academy of Paris, Chancellor of the Universities. The Council shall appoint an Executive Board consisting of two personalities, the President, currently the Rector Jean-Louis Boursin, former President of the Rectors' Conference of France, and the Director of the Courses, Pierre Brunel, Professor Emeritus of comparative literature at the Paris-Sorbonne University, member of the Institut Universitaire de France and the Academia Europaea; the Deputy Director Jean-Louis de Boissieu, French language honorary master conferences in the same university.
The historical headquarters of the CCFS is located in the Sorbonne. No teaching takes place in the same Sorbonne, but in the House of Students located at 214 Boulevard Raspail, Paris 14th District
The CCFS provide French courses for students of all levels, from complete beginners to professor of French as a foreign language. These courses prepare either to pass various national and international evaluations such as TCF or DELF or to obtain the school own diploma or certificate.
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