'Franco-British Cultural Exchanges: the Case of the Institut Francais 1910-1981'

法兰西学院于1910年在伦敦成立，是世界上最重要的法国文化中心之一。它最初是一家私人机构，后来逐渐成为法国政府的官方组织，使命是在英国推广法国文化。在第一次世界大战中，它发挥了帮助许多最终来到伦敦的法国和比利时难民的作用，正是出于对这些避难所中的儿童进行教育的需要，它帮助建立了著名的伦敦法语学校。从那时起，学院一直是伦敦法国社区生活中的重要组成部分。该研究所也是英国亲法者--甚至是更广泛的英国公众--与法国接触的重要地点，它曾在不同时期促进英国和法国政府发展更紧密的政治和文化联系的努力。当然，它是在1904年《协约》之后成立的，这并不是巧合。1939年，由法国总统阿尔伯特·勒布伦和玛丽公主主持的新建筑的开幕，是第二次世界大战前夕法英团结与合作的重要声明。法国沦陷后，学院最初成为自由法国人早期招募人员的集结点，但在所长丹尼斯·索拉特(Denis Saurat)转到反戴高乐主义的职位后，学院变成了一个更具争议性的地方。这个项目的目的是写学院的历史，通过它作为一个棱镜来看待三个问题：法英文化交流的性质，法国国家的文化政策和法国社区在伦敦的生活。这是三个非常大的问题，但使该项目可管理的是，通过这个具有战略重要性的机构的历史，将具体地处理它们。该研究所拥有关于其自身历史的重要档案，以前很少被利用，它参与这一项目还将提供必要的联系，使学生能够与研究所前所长和人员进行面谈。英国和法国之间的复杂关系是一个长期吸引人的话题，这个项目旨在为它提供一种原创的方法。

The Institut Français, founded in London in 1910, is one of the most important French cultural centres in the world. Originally a private institution, it gradually became an official organisation of the French state with the mission to promote French culture in Britain. In the First World War, it played a role in assisting many French and Belgian refugees who ended up in London, and it was out of a need to educate the children among these refuges that it helped to set up the famous Lycée français of London. Ever since then the Institut has been a significant presence in the life of the French community in London. The Institut has also been an important point of contact with France for British Francophiles - and indeed for the wider British public - and it has served at various times to promote the attempts of the British and French government to develop closer political and cultural ties. It is of course no coincidence that it was founded in the wake of the Entente Cordiale of 1904. The opening of its new building in 1939 by the French President Albert Lebrun and Princess Mary was a major statement of Franco-British unity and co-operation on the eve of the Second World War. After the Fall of France the Institut became initially a rallying point for early recruits to the Free French but then became a more contested space after its director Denis Saurat moved to an anti-Gaullist position. The purpose of this project is to write the history of the Institut, taking it as a prism though which to view three issues: the nature of Franco-British cultural exchanges, the cultural policies of the French state and the life of the French community in London. These are three very big questions but what makes the project manageable is that they will be approached concretely though the history of this strategically important institution. The Institut has important archives on its own history that have hardly been utilised before, and its participation in this project will also provide the necessary contacts to allow the student to carry out interviews with former directors and personnel of the Institut. The complex relationship between Britain and France is a subject of perennial fascination and this project aims to offer an original approach to it