Adam has classes in the morning and is skipping his afternoon conférences to hang out with me and his classmates. I meet him outside the Sorbonne in St. Michel, an historic part of town a stone’s throw from Kilometre Zero.
The Cours de Civilisation Française, the summer language course at the Sorbonne, was created just after WWI to promote French culture, and was designed to appeal particularly to the country’s American allies.
Today, the tradition of welcoming anyone in the pursuit of knowledge continues; anyone who arrives for enrolment will be accepted, as long as they have high school education (and can pay the course fees). Deputy-Director of the CCFS says that “even if classrooms have to be rented we will find a place for any student who arrives in those weeks.”
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