Maison française d'Oxford
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The Maison Française d'Oxford, known locally as simply Maison Française, is a French research centre in the humanities and social sciences and a member of the Network of French Research Institutes Est
Maison Francais, Oxford
Outside the main entrance.
Henri Fluchère, first director of the Maison Française.
André Malraux
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Georges André Malraux was a French novelist, member of the French Resistance, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's 1933 novel La Condition Humaine is set during the 1927 Shanghai
Maison française d'Oxford
…Partners. The first director at its new site was the French historian, François Bédarida (1966–1971) who opened the premises in 1967 the presence of André Malraux, the then Minister of Culture, to indicate the weight France placed on this outpost in the British Isles. From 1984 to 1991 Monica Charlot directed…
Malraux in 1974
The Banteay Srei temple was the subject of a celebrated case of art theft when André Malraux stole four images of devatas in 1923 (he was soon arrested and the figures returned).
Malraux in 1933
André Malraux in 1974