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In 1944, the recently liberated CIUP faced new challenges. As it sought to resume its civilian life, it was once more occupied first by American fighting troops, then by American student soldiers awaiting demobilization in Paris: this “second occupation” drew to a close in 1946. However, Americans remained a major actor of the CIUP in the following years, the Fondation des États-Unis playing a key role in organizing cultural activities that encouraged exchanges between students of different nationalities and, as such, the restoration of the Cité’s primary mission. Drawing on archives of the CIUP as well as on first-hand testimony by U.S. veteran and resident of the CIUP, John Breon, this article focuses on the reconstruction of the CIUP after the Second World War. It reveals the national issues at stake behind the apparent consensus of a return to civilian life: efforts to reconstruct the CIUP hid competing soft power strategies as French aimed to restore Paris centrality as a cultural hub while American players sought to defend the US newly acquired status, turning the Fondation des États-Unis into a showcase for American education. Between promoting French culture to the soldiers of the Liberation and defending and spreading an American model of prosperity, the reconstruction of the CIUP bears the marks of the transition from a time of war to a time of peace, but also from a world war to a new Cold War.

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The end of the war and the American presence at the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (1944–1950)

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  • Elisa Capdevila

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In 1944, the recently liberated CIUP faced new challenges. As it sought to resume its civilian life, it was once more occupied first by American fighting troops, then by American student soldiers awaiting demobilization in Paris: this “second occupation” drew to a close in 1946. However, Americans remained a major actor of the CIUP in the following years, the Fondation des États-Unis playing a key role in organizing cultural activities that encouraged exchanges between students of different nationalities and, as such, the restoration of the Cité’s primary mission. Drawing on archives of the CIUP as well as on first-hand testimony by U.S. veteran and resident of the CIUP, John Breon, this article focuses on the reconstruction of the CIUP after the Second World War. It reveals the national issues at stake behind the apparent consensus of a return to civilian life: efforts to reconstruct the CIUP hid competing soft power strategies as French aimed to restore Paris centrality as a cultural hub while American players sought to defend the US newly acquired status, turning the Fondation des États-Unis into a showcase for American education. Between promoting French culture to the soldiers of the Liberation and defending and spreading an American model of prosperity, the reconstruction of the CIUP bears the marks of the transition from a time of war to a time of peace, but also from a world war to a new Cold War.