Exclusive insight into "Educating for Peace: 100 Years of Ecolint"
The 1955 Christmas dinner in La Grande Boissière’s dining room-cum-auditorium (now turned into Pavillon des langues classrooms) was a fairly formal, elegant affair. Fred Roquette, just about visible in the background, presides over the event from the school’s equivalent of an Oxford or Cambridge “High Table”.
(Photo credit: Mme Groeflin / Ecolint Archives)
A location familiar to generations of Ecolint students: the Nº 12 tram stop closest to La Grande Boissière, Grange Canal. Although it has not changed substantially since the late 1950s, when this photograph was taken, the scene conveys vividly a quieter, less crowded and slower-paced era. The oncoming car is a Simca: a French make that was at the cutting edge of automobile design at the time, but was discontinued in 1978.
(Photo credit: Ecolint Archives)