Programs & Events 2008
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Mrs. Stapleton, three American students on an exchange program with ENSBA, Ambassador Stapleton, Director Henry-Claude Cousseau
First ambassadorial visit to world renowned Paris School of Fine Arts
April 14, 2008
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) is France’s top school of fine arts as well as the depository of a major and very valuable art collection. Its history relates to the US: from 1860-1940, over 500 American architects were graduates, including Richard Morris Hunt, H. H. Richardson and his protégé Charles McKim, John M. Carrère and Thomas Hastings. There is a memorial dedicated to the Ecole's Alumni who died during WW1 and WW2, on which the Ambassador laid a wreath.