Franska Skolan Ecole Francaise
| Ecole Française Franska Skolan |
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Döbelnsgatan 9 , 111 40 Sweden |
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| Coordinates | 59°20′19″N 18°03′48″E / 59.33863°N 18.063371°ECoordinates: 59°20′19″N 18°03′48″E / 59.33863°N 18.063371°E |
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| School type | private school |
| Founded | 1862 |
| Chairman | Johan Stenberg |
| Principal | Björn Kullgard |
| Grades | Preschool, 1–12 |
| Number of students | 1100 |
| Slogan | Liberté Égalité Fraternité |
| Website | www |
Franska Skolan (English: French School) is a private school located in , Sweden. It was founded in 1862.
French school (French: École Française) is a school located on Döbelnsgatan 9 in Stockholm, founded in 1862 originally as a girls' school of the Roman Catholic religious congregation Sisters of St. Joseph from France.
The school follows the Swedish system of education, but all the students study French. The school's students are mainly Swedish children, but also francophone students study there. The current head principal is Björn Kullgard.
The small farm on Kammakargatan 36 was purchased by Mary de Champs in 1862, a French-speaking Belgian woman who was born in England. She already came to Sweden in 1850 for her son Jean, who would become a naval officer and educated in Sweden. Along with Florentine Modelon she received the support of the Catholic Church in their home country to start a school in Sweden, and in October 1862 they found the property on Kammakargatan. An important decision behind this was the so-called authorization letter signed by Charles XV July 4, 1868 and gave mademoiselle Modelon right to buy and own real estate in Sweden, even though they were Catholics. The property went for a total of 22,600 francs, approximately 1,026,381 Swedish kronor today. In the small garden behind the house they started the school that began to operate in October. The property was located in a rural part of Stockholm that was not so built up.
Madame de Champs was responsible for teaching while Mademoiselle Modelon studied Swedish. Otherwise they were joined by the French girl Josefine Chervai, who served as a maid and Anders Jansson as a farmhand. In 1865 the school had 22 Catholic girls enrolled, mostly children of poor workers and craftsmen in Stockholm. During this time, the school was also a combined orphanage, first in 1869 pupils began living at home while studying at the school. Sisters came continuously from France to serve as teachers in French at school, and Swedish teachers educated the students in Swedish. The economy during this time remained strained despite annual contributions from the Catholic L'Oeuvre pontificale de la propagation de la foi in Lyon, and they were completely dependent on this.
In 1868 it was decided to move the school; now the number of students reached 55. The property is Drottninggatan 108 was an enclosed courtyard with two more houses. A woman who came to play a big role in the early school years on Drottninggatan was Jenny Müller. She was the daughter of one of six Swedish women who in 1858 was exiled in the so-called convert process. These women had converted to Catholicism and had to leave Sweden. Jenny Müller thus grew up in France. In 1862, 18 years old, she returned to Sweden. In 1870, two years after the school's relocation, mademoiselle Modelon died only 41 years old on 13 April.
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